I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.

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I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.

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Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.

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It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

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You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

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What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.

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There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.

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It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.

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The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.

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I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.

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