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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.

Claude Debussy

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy
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Born: August 22, 1862
Died: March 25, 1918 (aged 55)
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