"After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from oneâ€™s tears."

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Oscar Wilde

#Past Quotes #Mourning Quotes #Ignorant Quotes

“It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development.”
“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
“All the stream that's roaring by Came out of a needle's eye....”
“The first start toward success is to be glad you are yourself.”

Source : Florence Scovel Shinn (2009). “The Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.179, Penguin
“I'm in a state of my life when the essential is very important to me. I don't like long songs with complicated arrangements and breaks anymore.”
“[O]ne might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth at all. It would be as if every vertebrate in North America somehow felt drawn to a particular house in Peoria, Illinois. Are we really that interesting?”
“Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.”
“Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.”

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