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The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit.
Franz Liszt
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Franz Liszt
Age: 74 †
Born: 1811
Born: October 22
Died: 1886
Died: July 31
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Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.
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Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.
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Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.
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The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion, a question which will be one of life or death, good health or chronic disease, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever.
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As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men fill me with nothing but overwhelming horror.
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Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.
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I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound.
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Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
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I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.
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