Frederic Chopin

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!

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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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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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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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Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.

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Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

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Quotes by Frederic Chopin