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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

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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Claude Debussy
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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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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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…that freshness of feeling, that delicate honor which shrinks from wounding even a sentiment… – George Eliot, Adam Bede

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If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself. – Horace

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It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Sentimentality–thats what we call the sentiment we dont share. – Graham Greene

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