Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHNo mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning … for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.
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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When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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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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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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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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He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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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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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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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.
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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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In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.
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