"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."

Idea, Nobility

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"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."

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"When I need the idea, I can find it immediately. I have a horror of rewriting or deleting; the parts of my composition are carried in my head 'till I can write them down, even to the last note. Then I do not alter a jot."

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