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I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.

~Robert Schumann

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Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

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To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

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Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

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My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.

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Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.

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Talent works, genius creates.

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The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.

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You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Composer

Born: January 8th, 1810

Died: July 29th, 1856

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