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“I adore art… when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears...”
– Verdi
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“Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing...”
– Gian Carlo Menotti
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“Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair...”
– Pope John Paul II
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"Heaven" has different Signs—to me
“Heaven” has different Signs—to me— Sometimes, I think that Noon Is but a symbol of the Place— And when again, at Dawn, A mighty look runs round the World And settles in the Hills— An Awe if it should be like that Upon the Ignorance steals— The Orchard, when the Sun is on— The Triumph of the Birds When they together Victory make— Some Carnivals of Clouds— The Rapture of a finished Day—...
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“Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.”
– Gustav Mahler
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“The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most...”
– Richard Strauss
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Bottega Veneta: Viaggio Notturno
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“The more you own, the more you know you don’t own.”
– Aristotle Onassis
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Janie Taylor for Chloé
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“For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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