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These two are not two, love has made them one. Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery each is no less but more.

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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

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It is better to be a bad composer writing for society than to be a bad composer writing against it. At least your work can be of some use.

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For that, as I see it, is our job—to be useful, and to the living.

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I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

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One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
Franz Kafka

Benjamin Britten

Benjamin Britten

Born: November 22, 1913
Died: December 4, 1976 (aged 63)
Bio: Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten was an English composer, conductor and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British classical music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces.
Known for:
  1. Moonrise Kingdom
  2. The Angelic Conversation
  3. Night Mail (1936)
  4. Bad Blood
  5. Beau Travail

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