If you sound great in the practice room, you’re practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHSome men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning … for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.
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The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.
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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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