- Ludwig van Beethoven
(12/16/1770 – 03/26/1827)
German composer, to a fellow composer
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"The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable."
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"I like your opera. I think I will set it to music."
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| "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes." |
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"How can I possibly dislike a sex to which Your Majesty belongs?"
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"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."
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| "He laughs best who laughs last, the wiseacres vow; but I am impatient, I want to laugh now." |
"A fully-equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts; and dukes are just as great a terror and they last longer."
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| "It was a blonde, a blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window." |  |
"I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise."
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"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live."
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"A small silence came between us,
as precise as a picture hanging on the wall."
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"An erection at will is the moral equivalent of a valid credit card."
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"Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire."
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"I adored Hollywood because I'd always wanted to be a movie star. Maybe in some funny Freudian way, it was my way of getting more attention than my baby sister, who was pretty with curly hair. We all have drives we don't completely understand."
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"A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on."
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| Died 03/25 | Died 03/26 | Died 03/27 | Death Dates |