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Flames

CHAPTER VI
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He has improved upon Berlioz, if it is improvement to cry sin with a clearer, more determinate voice.

Think what a heaven that man could reproduce in music." "Because he has reproduced a hell.

But do you think that follows?
Can the man who wallows with force and originality soar with force and originality too ?" "I believe he could learn to.

The main thing is to possess genius in any form, the genius to imagine, to construct, to present things that seize upon the minds of men.

But to possess genius is only a beginning.
We have to train it, to lead it, to coax it even, until it learns to be obedient." "Genius and obedience.


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