Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier. - Gustav Mahler - Quotesmemo.com

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What is the elephant in all our rooms? It is the global triumph of capitalism. Democracy is fiercely disputed. Freedom is under threat even in old-established democracies such as Britain. Western supremacy is on the skids. But everyone does capitalism. Americans and Europeans do it. Indians do it. Russian oligarchs and Saudi princes do it. Even Chinese communists do it. . . Karl Marx would be turning in his grave. Or perhaps not, since some of his writings eerily foreshadowed our era of globalised capitalism. His prescription failed but his description was prescient.

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Gustav Mahler

Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.

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Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

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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.

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It is a funny thing, but when I am making music, all the answers I seek for in life seem to be there, in the music. Or rather, I should say, when I am making music, there are no questions and no need for answers.

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A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

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The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

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