Alas Quote by Hector Berlioz

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“Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.”

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“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students." [ Letter, November 1856 ]”

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At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

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“One evening we were exploring the Baths of Caracalla together, while debating the question of merit or demerit in human behaviour and its rewards…

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Bach is Bach just as God is God.

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“A life without once reading Hamlet is like a life spent in a coal mine.”

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It is so rare...to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent and restless…

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Music and love are the wings of the soul.

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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

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A feeble mind, conscious of its own feebleness, grows feeble under that very consciousness. As soon as the power of fear becomes known to…

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Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

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“World is so beautiful, but alas! There are so many assholes.”

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Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts.

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