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"When it happens that I am more moved by the song than the thing which is sung, I confess that I sin in a manner deserving punishment."
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"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."
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"Music awaken our soul."
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"One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner."
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"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."
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"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."
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"The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up by producing the same old show. In the beginning, our enthusiasm and ideals discarded as rubbish all the old fossilized plots."
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"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."
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"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."
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"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."
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"I want to see thirstIn the syllables,Tough fireIn the sound;Feel through the darkFor the scream."
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"Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery."
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"But perhaps there are insensitive hearts, still incapable of receiving this Light because the weight of their sins prevents them from seeing it. Let them not imagine that they Light is absent because they do not see it, for on account of their sins they are in darkness. 'And the Light shone in the darkness, and the darkness understood it not' (Jn 1:5). Therefore, Brothers, like the blind man exposed to the sun, the sun being present to him but he being absent from the sun, so the insensitive one, the sinner, the impious has a blind heart."
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"He fashioned hell for the inquisitive."
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"This is pride when the soul abandons Him to Whom it ought to cleave as its end and becomes a kind of end to itself. This happens when it becomes its own satisfaction."
Philosophy


"For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you 'today' never comes to an end: and yet our 'today' does come to an end in you, because time, as well as everything else, exists in you. If it did not, it would have no means of passing. And since your years never come to an end, for you they are simply 'today'...But you yourself are eternally the same. In your 'today' you will make all that is to exist tomorrow and thereafter, and in your 'today' you have made all that existed yesterday and for ever before."
Spiritual


"The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king."
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"When it happens that I am more moved by the song than the thing which is sung, I confess that I sin in a manner deserving punishment."
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"Every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself."
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"A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens."
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"He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother."
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