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• Football is the ballet of the masses.
• The best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much perish.…
• We should think more about it, and accustom ourselves to the thought of death. We can't allow the fear of death to…
• What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title?…
• When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
• I always try to make myself as widely understood as possible; and if I don't succeed, I consider it my own fault.
• I write music, it’s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn’t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long…
• Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
• If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.
• A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played…
• The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
• Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild…

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