Freedom!

“What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

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“I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

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“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

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“Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.

(Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)

[Said on his deathbed]”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

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Tonight’s musical offering, as we end a year of insanity, with another one to follow:

Beethoven – Symphony No. 9 – 2nd movement

Beethoven – Symphony No. 9 – 3rd movement ( In this shitposting writer’s opinion, possibly the most beautiful piece of music ever written)

Beethoven – Symphony No. 9 – 4th movement