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• A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth!
• We all return. It is this certainty that gives meaning to life and it does not make the slightest difference whether or…
• Don't bother to look, I've composed all this already.
• What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.
• But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial…
• It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience!…
• I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the…
• Life's been nothing but paperwork.
• Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.
• Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.
• Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.
• For the last month I have been a strict vegetarian. The moral effects of this regime are immense, owing to the voluntary…

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