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People don't very much like things that are beautiful — they are so far from their nasty little minds.
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It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.
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Every sound perceived by the acute ear in the rhythm of the world about us can be represented musically. Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear.
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Art is the most beautiful deception of all! And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. … Let us not disillusion anyone by bringing too much reality into the dream.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Born:
August 22, 1862
Died:
March 25, 1918
(aged 55)
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