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Your Beethoven is living
very unhappily in battle with nature and its creator….. My noblest part, my hearing,
has deteriorated very much |
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Music – the one
incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but
which mankind cannot comprehend. |
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Tones that sound, and roar
and storm about me until I have set them down in notes |
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Beethoven can write music,
thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth |
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Recommend virtue to your
children, that alone, not wealth, can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the
thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life. |
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No one should drive a hard
bargain with an artist. |
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