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German composer, conductor 1813–1883Related quotes
“Why, then, if expensive things cannot bring us remarkable joy, are we so powerfully drawn to them?”
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter II, Consolation For Not having Enough Money, p. 65.
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
Source: Endymion: A Poetic Romance
A Fairly Honourable Defeat (1970); 2001, p. 170.
Ruth Levinson, Chapter 5 Ira, p. 78
2009, The Longest Ride (2013)
“Grigory Petrovitch, let us weep, let us weep with joy!”
he said in a thin voice, and then at once burst out laughing in a loud bass guffaw. "Ho-ho-ho! This is a fine daughter-in-law for you too! Everything is in its place in her; all runs smoothly, no creaking, the mechanism works well, lots of screws in it."
Source: In the Ravine (1900), Ch. 3, pp. 193-4
“Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.”
Act IV, scene xx
Love for Love (1695)
“To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing.”
Source: 1960s, Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs (1966), p. 571 - Hans Arp's quote, made in 1962 in Galerie Denise René - this remark is also the last line in the art book Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs, Hans Arp, Gallimard, Paris 1966