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"Il n'y a pas de règle qu'on ne peut blesser à cause de " (There is no rule which one cannot break for the sake of ). This expression appears in the original in French except for the last word Schöner.

"Music ought to create and fan the fire of the spirit of man."

"Music is a higher revelation than the whole of wisdom and the whole of philosophy He who penetrates the meaning of my music shall be freed from all the misery which afflicts others."

"There is nothing finer than to approach the Divine and to shed its rays on the human race."