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Music escapes ideological characterization. Just as there are some social scientists who believe that what cannot be measured does not truly exist, and some psychologists used to believe that consciousness does not exist because it cannot be observed by instruments, so ideologists find anything that escapes their conceptual framework threatening - because ideologists want a simple principle, or a few simple principles, by which all things may be judged. When I was a student, I lived with a hard-line dialectical materialist who said that Schubert was a typical petit bourgeois pessimist, whose music would die out once objective causes for pessimism ceased to exist. But I suspect that even he was not entirely happy with this formulation.

Theodore Dalrymple
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I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

Franz Schubert
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Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

Franz Schubert
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I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

Franz Schubert
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You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Franz Schubert
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Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

Franz Schubert
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No one really understands the grief or joy of another.

Franz Schubert
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here’s why I take comedies seriously: they present and celebrate the world in which we survive our own and others’ mistakes, follies, transgressions, and deep sins. However lightly, dimly, or bleakly, comedies revel in our survival—in the delaying of death and the staying of the curse. Comedies tell the story of ruined folk somehow avoiding ruin.

Melissa Schubert
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With a heart filled with endless love for those who scorned me, I wandered far away. For many and many a year I sang songs. Whenever I tried to sing of love, it turned to pain. And again, when I tried to sing of pain, it turned to love.

Franz Schubert
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There is no such thing as happy music.

Franz Schubert
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