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Quote by Gustav Mahler
A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unco

A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable. – Gustav Mahler

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The point is not to take the worlds opinion as a guiding star but to go ones way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause. – Gustav Mahler

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Failure
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Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos. – Gustav Mahler

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Beauty
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If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. – Gustav Mahler

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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart. – Thomas Carlyle

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A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special. – Nelson Mandela

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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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