“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.”
― Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
― Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.”
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“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
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“For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to make them speak, weep, sing and sigh, to recreate them in accordance with his own consciousness. In this way he, like the composer, is a creator, for he must have within himself those passions that he wishes to bring so intensely to life.”
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