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My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them. I devour them with fury.

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Franz Liszt
Age: 74 †
Born: 1811
Born: October 22
Died: 1886
Died: July 31
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