“I think it is clear to everyone what happens in the Fifth. The rejoicing is forced, created under threat, as in Boris Godunov. It's as if someone were beating you with a stick and saying, "Your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing," and you rise, shaky, and go marching off, muttering, "Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing."”
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Testimony (1979)
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Russian composer and pianist 1906–1975Related quotes

“Just rejoice at that news and congratulate our forces and the marines... Rejoice.”
Remarks to the press in Downing Street (25 April 1982) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=104923 on announcing the liberation of South Georgia.
First term as Prime Minister

Letter (1800-11-25) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters

“Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.”

“You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.”
Source: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Solitude
Poetry quotes
Context: Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieve, and they turn and go.
They want full measure of all your pleasure,
But they do not need your woe.
Be glad, and your friends are many;
Be sad, and you lose them all.
There are none to decline your nectared wine,
But alone you must drink life's gall.

Source: The Little Minister (1891), Ch. 1 : The Love-Light
Context: The gladness of living was in your step, your voice was melody, and he was wondering what love might be.
You were the daughter of a summer night, born where all the birds are free, and the moon christened you with her soft light to dazzle the eyes of man. Not our little minister alone was stricken by you into his second childhood. To look upon you was to rejoice that so fair a thing could be; to think of you is still to be young.

Source: Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder