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When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.

Summit Great Reluctance Reach
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Man lives in greatest pain

Man Lives Greatest Pain
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You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

Renounce Convention Vanity Delusion
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I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.

Beg Assume Pose Disguise
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The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.

Live Learn Feel Men
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The real art of conducting consists in transitions

Real Art Conducting Transitions
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Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

Melodic Invention Signs Divine gift
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Discipline, work. Work, discipline.
Discipline Work
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It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

One's Endeavour Afresh Anew
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The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.

Spirit Assert Medium Clear form
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Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.

Never GuidedOpinions One's way
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The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

Music Develops Composer Thoughts
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I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

Hitting Against Walls Giving way
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To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.

Write Symphony Construct World
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A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

Thought Devour Fever Consumption
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Our senses are fairies who work the miracle of changing that movement into noise, and by that metamorphosis give birth to music, which makes the mute agitation of nature a harmony

Senses Miracle Music Nature
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They had moved closer to one another to watch the dying moments of the day, this beautiful bright May day.

Moved Watch Moments Beautiful
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But he asked himself now if he would not be disobeying God. And does not God permit love, since He surrounds it with such visible splendor?

God Permit Love Splendor
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I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in the manner of a mountain guide, nothing more.

Kissed Way Manner Guide
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Military men are the scourges of the world

Millitary Men Scourges World
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Language dazzles and deceives because it is masked by faces, because we see it emerging from the lips, because lips please and eyes beguile. But words on paper, black on white, reveal the naked soul.

Language Masked Reveal Soul
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Every authentically loved being is a kind of god

Every Loved Being God
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It is not difficult to pass for being learned. The secret is not to betray your ignorance.

Difficult Learned Secret Ignorance
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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

Essence Life Smile Boredom
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
Artist Impose Vision Humanity
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Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Government Duty Avoid War
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Certainly solitude is dangerous for active minds. We require around us men who can think and talk. When we are alone for a long time, we people space with phantoms.

Solitude Minds Think Alone
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

Past Attract Future Death
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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

Memory Perfect World Life
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

Only Good thing Life Love
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A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

Art Music Poetic Dream
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Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

Words Deceive Face Soul
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.

Everything False Possible Doubtful
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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.

Everything Dying Live Fact
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One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.

One Weeps Illusions Death
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The only certainty is death.

Only Certainty Death
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing

Coveted Everything Pleasure Nothing
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Patriostism Religion Wars Hatched
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Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness

Great minds Healthy Geniuses Inferior
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You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

Lived Died Life Fought
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We love our mother unknowingly, and only realize how deep-rooted that love is at the ultimate separation.

Love Mother Realize Ultimate
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Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

Government Right Death People
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Yes, this is the only good thing in life: love! To hold a woman you love in your arms! That is the ultimate in human happiness.

Life Love Woman Happiness
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Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised

Love Heart Precious Despised
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Envy, bitter envy, was permeating his soul drop by drop, like a poison that tainted all his pleasures and made his life hateful.

Envy Soul Pleasures Life
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
Lives Ecounter Life Worth
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If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again.

Time Nothing Experience Moment
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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both

Unhappy Love Marriage People
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Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.

Life Feel Happy Death
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After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works

Make Fool Learn Works
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