In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster.

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A life without pain: it was the very thing I had dreamed of for years, but now that I had it, I couldn’t find a place for myself within it. A clear gap separated me from it, and this caused me great confusion. I felt as if I were not anchored to this world - this world that I had hated so passionately until then; this world that I had continued to revile for its unfairness and injustice; this world where at least I knew who I was. Now the world ceased to be the world, and I had ceased to be me.

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I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

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In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person's heart and dissolve it. You could see it, too, as a kind of double-edged sword. It protects me, but at the same time steadily cuts away at me from the inside.

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I am struck by how, except when you're young, you really need to prioritize in life, figuring out in what order you should divide up your time and energy. If you don't get that sort of system set by a certain age, you'll lack focus and your life will be out of balance.

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In other words, let's face it: Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek out a kind of fairness. Of course, that might take time and effort. And maybe it won't seem to be worth all that. It's up to each individual to decide whether or not it is.

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A deaf composer's like a cook who's lost his sense of taste. A frog that's lost its webbed feet. A truck driver with his license revoked. That would throw anybody for a loop, don't you think? But Beethoven didn't let it get to him. Sure, he must have been a little depressed at first, but he didn't let misfortune get him down. It was like, Problem? What problem? He composed more than ever and came up with better music than anything he'd ever written. I really admire the guy. Like this Archduke Trio--he was nearly deaf when he wrote it, can you believe it? What I'm trying to say is, it must be tough on you not being able to read, but it's not the end of the world. You might not be able to read, but there are things only you can do. That's what you gotta focus on--your strengths. Like being able to talk with the stone.

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Mots clés inspirational reading beethoven composer

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O amor é isso mesmo meu caro Kafka. Tu é que andas sempre nas nuvens e experimentas todos esses sentimentos maravilhosos, do mesmo modo que só tu é que desces ao abismo mais profundo da angústia. E o teu corpo e a tua alma têm de suportar. Estás entregue a ti próprio.

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Por vezes o destino é como uma pequena tempestade de areia que não pára de mudar de direcão. Tu mudas de rumo, mas a tempestade de areia vai atrás de ti. Voltas a mudar de direcção, mas a tempestade persegue-te, seguindo no teu encalço. Isto acontece uma vez e outra e outra, como uma espécie de dança maldita com a morte ao amanhecer. Porquê? Porque esta tempestade não é uma coisa que tenha surgido do nada, sem nada que ver contigo. Esta tempestade és tu. Algo que está dentro de ti. Por isso, só te resta deixares-te levar, mergulhar na tempestade, fechando os olhos e tapando os ouvidos para não deixar entrar a areia e, passo a passo, atravessá-la de uma ponta à outra.

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I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,” I said, using the English word.
“Pessi-what?”
“Pessimistic. It means looking only at the dark side of things.”
“Pessimistic … pessimistic …” She repeated the English to herself over and over, and then she looked up at me with a fierce glare. “I’m only sixteen,” she said, “and I don’t know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I’m pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.

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