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The best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much perish. You have to treat everything with irony, especially the things you hold dear. There’s more of a chance then that they’ll survive.

Dmitri Shostakovich

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If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.
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