"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony."

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Source : Benjamin Britten (2011). “Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten”, Faber & Faber

Benjamin Britten

#Strength Quotes #Music Quotes #Beauty Quotes

“This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.”

Source : "This Englishwoman" l. 1 (1937)
“If the salmon and steelhead are running, then as far as I am concerned, God knows that all is well in His worldthe health of the environment is good if the salmon and steelhead are around. It is that simple.”
“Sexuality is a human instinct as natural as hunger or thirst.”
“I loved Superman as a kid, and to me, this was my superhero.”
“The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is a crime against the student mind. It is like teaching a child how to pronounce words but not what they mean.”
“I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.”
“A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.”
“Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.”

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