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What humiliation when someone who stood next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or when someone heard the shepherd boy singing and again I heard nothing. Such misfortune brought me to the edge of despair, and I might have brought an end to my life—only my art held me back.

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Music, verily, is the mediator between the life of the mind and the senses.
Variant translation: Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and sensual life.

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Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.

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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.
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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven
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Born: December 16, 1770
Died: March 26, 1827 (aged 56)
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