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(Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.)
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Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
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(Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.)
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(A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.)
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(What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.)