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"Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand."
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"I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment."
Impulses
"An operetta is simply a small and gay opera."
Gay
"A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything."
World
"It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces."
Result
"Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier."
Destiny
"It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going."
First
"There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note."
Difference
"The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form."
Spirit
"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
"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music."
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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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Personal Development
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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Personal Development
"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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