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Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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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. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#boring #faster #go #slower #think

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. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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

— Gustav Mahler

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