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"Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither — these make the finest company in the world."
— L.P. Smith

"Only strong natures can really be sweet ones: those that seem sweet are in general only weak, and may easily turn sour."
— La Rochefoucauld

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
— Carl Jung

"Where words leave off, music begins."
— Heinrich Heine

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
— Victor Hugo

"Nobody dreams of music in hell, and nobody conceives of heaven without it."
— S. Parkes Cadman

"Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels."
— Goya

"I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not."
— Fannie Hurst

"You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence."
— Carl G. Jung

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
— Elbert Hubbard

"Insects sting, not in malice but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood, not our pain."
— Nietzsche

"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise."
— W. Somerset Maugham

"He understands badly who listens badly."
— Welsh Proverb

"This music crept by me upon the waters,
Allaying both their fury and my passion
With its sweet air: thence I have follow'd it,
Or it hath drawn me rather. But 'tis gone.
No, it begins again."
— Shakespeare

"We work in the darkÑwe do what we canÑwe give what we have.
Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."
— Henry James