“I wish with all the forces of my spirit that my music could spread, that the number of people loving it, finding consolation and support in it, could grow.”
“... What a delight it is to feel oneself in quietude, far from vanity, at home, and in solitude at that!!! No one loves one’s relatives and parents more than me, and yet the true norm for me is solitude: the community of books, notes, ink and paper.”
“I am an artist who can and must bring honor to his homeland. I feel a great artistic force in me. I have not done a tenth of what I could do. I want to do it with all the force in my soul.”
“I work a lot, and, as usual, I am getting tired a lot. But I am not complaining! My plans are growing, and, frankly, even two lives wouldn’t be enough to carry out what I would like to do! Our life is outrageously short!!!”
“... In my writings I appear the way God created me and the way my upbringing, circumstances and the traits of the century and of the country I live and act in made me. I have never betrayed myself. Let others judge whether I am good or bad.”
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