“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
Emile Zola book Au Bonheur des Dames
Source: The Ladies' Paradise
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian writer
Source: Rebuilding Russia: Reflections and Tentative Proposals
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
Other
Joachim Peiper (1915–1976) SS officer
Interview with a French writer Peiper spoke with in 1967, quoted in The Devil's Adjutant by Michael Reynolds, page 260.
“There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.”
William Barclay (1907–1978) Church of Scotland minister and academic
“But then of course everything always happens for a reason”
Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor
Mockingbird
2000s, Encore (2004)
“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920–1975) Bengali revolutionary, founder ("father") of Bangladesh
Quote, This time the struggle is for our freedom (1971)
“To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable”
Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer
Not found in Beethoven's known works. It may be a summary of the following description of Beethoven from his piano pupil Ferdinand Ries: "When I left out something in a passage, a note or a skip, which in many cases he wished to have specially emphasized, or struck a wrong key, he seldom said anything; yet when I was at fault with regard to the expression, the crescendo or matters of that kind, or in the character of the piece, he would grow angry. Mistakes of the other kind, he said were due to chance; but these last resulted from want of knowledge, feeling or attention. He himself often made mistakes of the first kind, even playing in public." <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Source: "When Beethoven gave me a lesson" https://books.google.com/books?id=j8RIq67v51cC&pg=PA294&dq=%22when+beethoven+gave+me+a+lesson%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAGoVChMI7Yyz0PiNyQIViDuICh1YIAzR#v=onepage&q=%22when%20beethoven%20gave%20me%20a%20lesson%22&f=false
Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) British singer, songwriter and record producer
Statement to the press (23 November 1991), the day before his death, as quoted at The Biography Channel http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_story/338:294/1/Freddie_Mercury.htm.
“You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.”
Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician
“If you don't like this, I'll stop writing music.”
Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) Italian composer
Se questa non piace, non voglio più scrivere di musica.
Quoted in: Michael Talbot (1978) Vivaldi, p. 90
An ironic note written upon an aria score of his opera Orlando Furioso (1727).
“What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.”
Isaac Newton (1643–1727) British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern classical physics