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"I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone."
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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
"It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it."
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"It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind."
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"The word of my lord is the sword for world."
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"My word fly up my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
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"But words - words are not enough!"
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"For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue."
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"Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly."
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"And it should be the law: If you use the word "paradigm" without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions."
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"If you say a word against a 'sensitive' person, it will have an immediate effect. In reality, words are simply a 'record' playing."
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"I jokingly refer to the word "gourmet" as the "g" word."
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"Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?"
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