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I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

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It is easier to analyze a work in its form, in its evolution, than simply to love it with all the living forces of our heart. It is easier to define its peculiarities and its details than to draw out of it its emotion, its thought.

Details, Emotion, Evolution, Heart, Love
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I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.

Music, Jobs, Sex, Astonishment, Part, Job

To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

Break, Breaking Rules, Create, Creativity, Learn, Music

Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for: it has broadened the limits of our sorrowful life, it has lit up the sweetness of our hours of happiness by effacing the pettinesses that diminish us, bringing us back pure and new to what was, what will be, what music has created for us.

Done, Hours, Limits, Lit, Music, Takes

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

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It is so much easier to rest contented with what we have already acquired than to change ever so slightly those routine but profound habits of thought and feeling which govern our life, and by which we live so blissfully. This mental inertia is, perhaps, our greatest enemy. Insidiously it leads us to assume that we can renew our lives without renewing our habits.

Easier, Enemy, Feeling, Feelings, Profound, Slightly
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