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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."

"Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite."

"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."

"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
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"When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store."

"My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project."

"The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it."

"Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy."

"It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts."

"Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved."

"Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique."

"There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love."

"Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been."
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