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The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.
Gustav Mahler
Men
Difference
Will
The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.
Gustav Mahler
Spirit
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
Question
Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
Gustav Mahler
Invention
Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.
Gustav Mahler
Opinion
Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
Gustav Mahler
Spring
The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.
Gustav Mahler
Love
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
Gustav Mahler
Delusion
Superficiality
Vanity
It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.
Gustav Mahler
First
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
Gustav Mahler
Art
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
Life
Failure
Applause
Opinion
World
There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.
Gustav Mahler
Difference
World
To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.
Gustav Mahler
Work
With the coming of spring, I am calm again.
Gustav Mahler
Spring
Discipline, work. Work, discipline.
Gustav Mahler
Work
Discipline