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• Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.
• I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by…
• Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.
• Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
• Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
• Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.
• Love, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns that sustain…
• Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
• Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the…
• A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
• I loathe my body. The liver spots, the sagging flesh.
• Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do.

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