Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone connected to it to hell.
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A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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