If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Gustav Mahler
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ANTONIO PORCHIA It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not...
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Don't say" if I could, I would".Say instead "If I can, I will".
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GUSTAV MAHLER The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
GUSTAV MAHLER Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.
GUSTAV MAHLER Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
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GUSTAV MAHLER Fortissimo at last!( on seeing Niagara Falls )
GUSTAV MAHLER Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed
GUSTAV MAHLER Don't bother looking at the view -- I have already composed it.
GUSTAV MAHLER At last, fortissimo! [On visiting Niagara]
GUSTAV MAHLER Fortissimo at last!
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GUSTAV MAHLER I have had on the tip of my tongue for some time.
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GUSTAV MAHLER What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.
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GUSTAV MAHLER Fortissimo at last!
( on seeing Niagara Falls )
GUSTAV MAHLER I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.
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GUSTAV KRUPP Mankind advances only through struggle.
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GUSTAV STRESEMANN Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territor...
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CARL GUSTAV JUNG Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which open...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for my...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG You can take away a man's gods, but only to give himothers in return.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG You're more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action. So act! Whatever it ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG We think of our efficient teachers with a sense of recognition, but those who touched our humanity w...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks b...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross se...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling ha...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Our faith and our friendships are not shattered by one big act, but by many small neglects.
J. GUSTAV WHITE If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our for...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
CARL GUSTAV JUNG The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who loo...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has ...
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