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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHTruly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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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.
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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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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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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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The vain being is the really solitary being.
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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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We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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