Music speaks where words fail.

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Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.

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It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

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Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

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It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

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Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.

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How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

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Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.

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