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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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Ludvig van Beethoven
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I don't want to know anything about your system of ethics. Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.
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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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Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you. Oh how harshly was I flung back by the doubly sad experience of my bad hearing.
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There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.
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Yet it was impossible for me to say to people, 'Speak louder, shout, for I am deaf.' Ah, how could I possibly admit an infirmity in the one sense which ought to be more perfect in me than others, a sense which I once possessed in the highest perfection, a perfection such as few in my profession enjoy or ever have enjoyed.
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Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music.
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There is no loftier mission than to approach the Godhead more nearly than other mortals, and by means of that contact to spread the rays of the Godhead through the human race.
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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
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Artists are fiery they do not weep.
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Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
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Handel, to him I bow the knee.
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I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.
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Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.
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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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Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
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I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.
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One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.
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Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
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Hide your secret even from the closest friend learn to be silent.
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Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.
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