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Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

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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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Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religi...more

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Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.