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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
Music is essentially useless, as is life.
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
The degree in which a poet’s imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.