The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHAll 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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The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is 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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With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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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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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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When the foot of the’ mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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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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When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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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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We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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