"The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart."

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Source : Richard Wagner (1873). “Beethoven”, p.16, Indianapolis : Benham Bros.

Richard Wagner

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“The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand have sprung from a single small seed, a seed as remote and windblown as a casual hint.”
“Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive.”
“There are people who believe in Egypt that I - I'm actually - I'm getting paid by external powers and external intelligence entities in order to use satire to bring down the government.”
“I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.”

Source : Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria
“How can one not succumb and allow one's courage to fail when everything is shut tight, when all meaningful things are walled up, and when you constantly knock against bricks, as against the walls of a prison?”

Source : Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics
“I don't see you making a movie about Bob Arum.”
“Africans are not as tall as northern Europeans. But Manute Vol and other sports figures in basketball and football receive a lot of press coverage.”
“To the aircraft I aim, not the man.”

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