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The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.
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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All my life I have regarded myself as one of Mozart's greatest admirers, and I will remain one until my last breath.
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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
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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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The Music is the only corporeal introduction to the superior world of Knowledge.
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