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Pablo Casals Quotes

"You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children."

"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart."

"The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?"
Patriotism

"The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful."

"I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true."

"Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it."

"I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance."

"We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree."

"The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do."

"Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere."

"To retire is to die."

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