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Yes, it is true. I am a miracle. I am a miracle like a tree is a miracle, like a flower is a miracle. Now, if I am a miracle, can I do a bad thing? I can't, because I am a miracle, I am a miracle. . . .

Pablo Casals

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Pablo Casals
Age: 96 †
Born: 1876
Born: December 29
Died: 1973
Died: August 14
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Cellist
Composer
Conductor
Music Pedagogue
Musician
University Teacher
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I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter.
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We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
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The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
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The truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked.
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I don't have hobbies. I have passions.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man.
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Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.
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To retire is the beginning of death.
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Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe a moment that never was before and never will be again.
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The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.
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Throughout my career, nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at, I feel as bad as I did the very first time.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
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The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.
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Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear, which is anything but transcendent. He has reached the heart of every noble thought, and has done it in the most perfect way.
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I do not think a day passes in my life in which I fail to look with fresh amazement at the miracle of nature.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.
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