Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

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A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.

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Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

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Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.

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In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

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It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

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I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.

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The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.

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Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

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I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services.

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