"I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new. I have made an intense effort to feel the musical manner of today, but it will not come to me."

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Source : "Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music". Book by Sergei Bertensson and Jay Leyda, p. 351, 2002.

Sergei Rachmaninoff

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“My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?”
“A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed time, can be savored of itself and without the usual adulteration of events that clog time like peanuts in brittle.”
“Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.”
“If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity forâ€”Doing.”

Source : Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “Little Eve Edgarton”, p.10, The Floating Press
“The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.”
“When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.”
“What you need to do, is to put your will over completely into the hands of your Lord, surrendering to Him the entire control of it. Say, "Yes, Lord, YES!" to everything, and trust Him to work in you to will, as to bring your whole wishes and affections into conformity with His own sweet, and lovable, and most lovely will. It is wonderful what miracles God works in wills that are utterly surrendered to Him. He turns hard things into easy, and bitter things into sweet. It is not that He puts easy things in the place of the hard, but He actually changes the hard thing into an easy one.”

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