"Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces."

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Source : Jean Sibelius' remarks quoted by Jalmari Finne to Anna Sarlin, June 28, 1905.

Jean Sibelius

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“Though Duty's face is stern, her path is best: They sweetly sleep who die upon her breast.”

Source : HENRY ABBEY (1872). “BALLADS OF GOOD DEEDS”, p.14
“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”
“Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.”
“I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of Turks who view the Kurdish people's justified cause through a nationalist lens.”
“You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise.”
“Any powerful technology can be abused.”
“The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected parts of it that cannot be spoken.”
“Most people who are healthy, and I'm healthy, can't even live my life. Trust me. I get up 530-6 every morning. I'm in the gym. I run a couple miles. I lift weights, and then I'm at work until 8-9 o'clock at night.”

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