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"The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds."

"The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe."

"What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own."

"The heart lives in that space between harmonic regularity and chaotic uncertainty."
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"Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?"

"There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy."

"There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals."

"One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?"

"I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion."

"No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by."

"If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have."

"Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me."
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