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I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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