"Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down."

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Source : Hector Berlioz (1935). “Memoirs of Hector Berlioz from 1803 to 1865: comprising his travels in Germany, Italy, Russia, and England”

Hector Berlioz

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“To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.”
“Everything useful in mathematics has been devised for a purpose. Even if you don't know it, the guy who did it first, he knew what he was doing. Banach didn't just develop Banach spaces for the sake of it. He wanted to put many spaces under one heading. Without knowing the examples, the whole thing is pointless.”
“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”

Source : Carson McCullers (2017). “Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings”, p.408, Library of America
“It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.”
“Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.”
“No matter how close we got to a station or a disc jockey ... they could disappear into the ether without so much as a wave goodbye or a farewell song.”
“Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.”

Source : Peter Watts (2006). “Blindsight”, p.48, Macmillan
“By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow.Â You shortchange yourself by devaluing the experiences and knowledge you've banked, all those things that have been making you, you.”

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