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Quote by Claude Debussy
How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the nake

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. – Claude Debussy

Other quotes by Claude Debussy

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. – Claude Debussy

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Art
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Claude Debussy
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Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part. – Claude Debussy

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Beauty
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I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. – Claude Debussy

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Music
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The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Emotions

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. – Rainer Maria Rilke

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Emotions

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. – Max Eastman

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Emotions

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated. – Charles Dickens

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Emotions

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Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. – Dan Greenburg

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When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man. – Diogenes

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Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic. – Lorna Luft

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The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of mens lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque. – John Ruskin

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