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What you are, you are by accident of birth what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes there is only one Beethoven.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Age: 56 †
Born: 1770
Born: December 16
Died: 1827
Died: March 26
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But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone standing next to me heard a shepherd singing and again I heard nothing. Such incidents drove me almost to despair a little more of that and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back.
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I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.
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Oh continue to love me, never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours.
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Hide your secret even from the closest friend learn to be silent.
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Strange, I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes.
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Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.
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I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.
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Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
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I shall hear in heaven.
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