Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.
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Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
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Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
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Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
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