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zinniabooklover said:
"In a letter, Berlioz sounds like a man living on the very edge: “So many musical ideas are seething within me!... Now that I have broken free of the bonds of orthodoxy, I see huge vistas opening up before me, which academic stuffiness had previously forbidden me to explore... There are new things, many new things to be done, I feel it in every fibre of my being, and I shall achieve my aims, believe me, on my life.”

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Discovering Hector Berlioz

Critics bayed for Hector Berlioz’s blood whenever his music was played but happily for the composer, today it’s their reputations and not his in the guillotine
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That quote is very inspiring.
 
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An artist must regulate his life.​
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Here is a time-table of my daily acts. I rise at 7.18; am inspired from 10.23 to 11.47. I lunch at 12.11 and leave the table at 12.14. A healthy ride on horse-back round my domain follows from 1.19 pm to 2.53 pm. Another bout of inspiration from 3.12 to 4.7 pm. From 5 to 6.47 pm various occupations (fencing, reflection, immobility, visits, contemplation, dexterity, natation, etc.)​
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Dinner is served at 7.16 and finished at 7.20 pm. From 8.9 to 9.59 pm symphonic readings (out loud). I go to bed regularly at 10.37 pm. Once a week (on Tuesdays) I awake with a start at 3.14 am.​
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My only nourishment consists of food that is white […] I boil my wine and drink it cold mixed with the juice of the Fuschia. I have a good appetite but never talk when eating for fear of strangling myself.​
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I breathe carefully (a little at a time) and dance very rarely. When walking I hold my ribs and look steadily behind me.​
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My expression is very serious; when I laugh it is unintentional, and I always apologise very politely.​
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I sleep with only one eye closed, very profoundly. My bed is round with a hole in it for my head to go through. Every hour a servant takes my temperature and gives me another.​
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"One of the unique joys at Bath are the two ladders of ascending angels carved into the north and south piers of the west front. These were executed when the Abbey was still under monastic control in the late 15th century and are not part of the later rebuilding and restoration, which followed the Abbey’s dissolution (in 1539). Then the buildings began quite rapidly to fall down, doubtless as a result of the lead having been removed from the roof."

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The Ladders to Heaven at Bath

Bath is best known for its stunning early Georgian architecture, mostly designed by John Wood, father and son (see The Making of the British Landscape, pp. 424-7). These superb buildings have quite…
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