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“For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.”
“Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.”