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Life Quotes by Frederic Chopin
- Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.
- I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety,…
- I feel like a novice, just as I felt before I knew anything of the keyboard. It is far too original, and I shall end…
- If I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career; yet I know how much I still…
- Having nothing to do, I am correcting the Paris edition of Bach; not only the engraver's mistakes, but also the mistakes hallowed by those who…
- When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing.…
- It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell…
- I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, and yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
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- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
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