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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 lack, to reach perfection I see it the more clearly now that I live only among first-rank artists and know what each one of them lacks.

Frederic Chopin

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Frederic Chopin
Age: 39 †
Born: 1810
Born: March 1
Died: 1849
Died: October 17
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As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.
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I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all those strange faces.
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I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
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Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.
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To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!
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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 my piano the things I used to tell you.
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A long time ago I decided that my universe will be the soul and heart of man.
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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 are supposed to understand Bach (I have no pretensions to understand better, but I do think that sometimes I can guess).
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Yesterday's concert was a success. I hasten to let you know. I inform your Lordship that I was not a bit nervous and played as I play when I am alone. It went well... and I had to come back and bow four times.
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We fell silent and all joking ceased. We gazed mutely into each other's eyes and an intense longing for the fullest avowal of the truth forced us to a confession, requiring no words whatever, or the incommensurable misfortune that weighed upon us. With tears and sobs we sealed a vow to belong to each other alone.
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Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
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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. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.
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The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.
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I could express my feelings more easily if they could be put into the notes of music, but as the very best concert would not cover my affection for you, dear daddy, I must use the simple words of my heart, to lay before you my utmost gratitude and filial affection
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If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house painter that would be as easy as anything else, and I should, at any rate, still be an artist!
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Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.
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