"The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places."

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From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again, I seize it, I embrace it with delight... I multiply it by modulations, and at last I triumph in the first theme. There is the whole symphony.

— Ludwig van Beethoven