"Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?"

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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.

— Rebecca West