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It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of c...more

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The only thing--I tell you this straight from the heart--that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one can't have any proper social intercourse with those ...more

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You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak— that I think about it all day long— that I like experimenting— studying— reflecting.

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.