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"The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi."
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"An operetta is simply a small and gay opera."
Gay
"A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything."
World
"There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note."
Difference
"I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life."
Life
"In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience."
Music
"The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks."
Love
"I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day."
Ideas
"The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause."
Life
"Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way."
Opinion
"Discipline, work. Work, discipline."
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"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."
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"What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men."
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Personal Development
"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."
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Personal Development
"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."
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"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."
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"The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same."
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Personal Development
"The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation."
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Personal Development
"A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth."
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"When women go wrong, men go right after them."
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"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."
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