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  • I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new. I have made an intense effort to feel the musical manner of today, but it will not come to me.

    "Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music". Book by Sergei Bertensson and Jay Leyda, p. 351, 2002.