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<blockquote>I have the more turned my gaze upwards; but for our own sakes and for others we are obliged sometimes to turn our attention to lower things; this, too, is a part of human destiny.<ref>Beethoven, February 8, 1823, to Zelter, in Friedrich Kerst, comp., Henry Edward Krehbiel, trans. and ed., ''Beethoven, the Man and the Artist: As Revealed in His Own Words'' (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1905), p. 93.</ref> | <blockquote>I have the more turned my gaze upwards; but for our own sakes and for others we are obliged sometimes to turn our attention to lower things; this, too, is a part of human destiny.<ref>Beethoven, February 8, 1823, to Zelter, in Friedrich Kerst, comp., Henry Edward Krehbiel, trans. and ed., ''Beethoven, the Man and the Artist: As Revealed in His Own Words'' (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1905), p. 93.</ref></blockquote> | ||
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