"I know of no better definition of love……" — Gian Carlo Menotti
"I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart."
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25 Quotes by Gian Carlo Menotti
Gian Carlo Menotti has 25 quotes on this site.
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Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.
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Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.
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Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
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Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
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Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.
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Love, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns…
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Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
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Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of…
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A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
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I loathe my body. The liver spots, the sagging flesh.
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Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do.
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It takes a Bobby White to make a tired 90-year-old composer write a song about love.
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