"Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say."

-- Kurt Masur

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“Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.”
“Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain. We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.”
“To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.”
“It's the same questions we ask of our existence, and the answer is always the same. The mystery lies not in the question nor the answer, but in the asking and answering themselves, over and over again, and the end is engendered in the beginning.”

Source : Jacqueline Carey (2016). “Kushiel’s Legacy”, p.2289, Macmillan
“Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.”
“It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books . . .”
“Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.”
“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.”

Source : Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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