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I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.
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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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 shall seize fate by the throat.
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Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music.
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Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king
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She was such a good loving mother, my best friend. Oh, who was happier than I when I could still say the dear name Mother, and it was heard, and whom can I say it to now?
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Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.
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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 am resolved to rise superior to every obstacle. With whom need I be afraid of measuring my strength? I will take Fate by the throat. It shall not overcome me. O how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times!
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Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.
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We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.
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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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Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.
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Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
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Let your deafness no longer be a secret - even in art.
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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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Art demands of us that we shall not stand still.
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