"When I have reached a summit, I leave……" — Gustav Mahler
"When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one."
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64 Quotes by Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler has 64 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- 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…
- 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…
- It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do…
- I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew…
- 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…
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