"Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?"

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Source : Marie Anne de Bovet, Charles Gounod (1891). “Charles Gounod: His Life and His Works”

Charles Gounod

#Limits Quotes #Breathe Quotes #Elegance Quotes

“You always think another time would have been ideal for you . . . the reality is there was no novocaine when you went to the dentist.”
“Sometimes it seems like we're all living in some kind of prison, and the crime is how much we all hate ourselves. It's good to get really dressed up once in a while and admit the truth - that when you really look closely, people are so strange and so complicated that they're actually beautiful. Possibly even me.”
“Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.”
“I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer.... People's general awareness is getting much better, even down to buying a pint of milk: the fact that the calves are actually killed so that the milk doesn't go to them but to us cannot really be right, and if you have seen a cow in a state of extreme distress because it cannot understand why its calf isn't by, it can make you think a lot.”
“My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.”
“The ancestor of every action is a thought.”
“As Serbia continues to move towards rectifying the evils of its past and joining the ranks of democratic nations, it is important that the individuals involved in the death of the Bytyqi brothers are held accountable for their actions[.]”
“I think the entire message of the psychedelic experience, which is basically the sine qua non of the rebirth of alchemical understanding, the very basis of that understanding is that nature seeks to communicate.”

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