Frédéric Chopin quotes - page 2

Messieurs, I should like to be granted the favour of performing at one of your admirable concerts, and this I beg to ask of you. Trusting, since I lack other qualifications to obtain this, in your goodwill towards artists, I dare to hope that you will greet my request favourably, I have the honour to be, Messieurs, your very humble servant. Frédéric Chopin Cité Bergère, No. 4. (Frédéric Chopin)
I must go now and wash. So don't embrace me now, as I haven't washed myself yet. View quote
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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. View quote
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Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long? View quote
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As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days. View quote
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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! View quote
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I shall create a new world for myself. View quote
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I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong. View quote
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Here you doubtless observe my tendency to do wrong against my will. View quote
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You know how easily things grow out of nothing, when they pass through a mouth that smears them all over and makes something else out of them. View quote
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Now I am going to wash myself. Please do not embrace me as I have not washed yet. And you? Even were I to anoint myself with fragrant oils from Byzantium, you would not embrace me-not unless forced to by magnetism. But there are forces in Nature! Today you will dream that you are embracing me! You have to pay for the nightmare you caused me last night! (Frédéric Chopin)
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness. View quote
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But why should one be ashamed of writing badly in spite of knowing better – it's results that shows errors. View quote
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I dream music but I cannot make any because here there are not any pianos . . . in this respect this is a savage country. View quote
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Give me a kiss, dearest lover. I'm certain that you still love me, and I fear you always, like some tyrant over me. I don't know why, but I fear you. Upon my word, only you have power over me, you and... no one else. View quote
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Here you doubtless observe my tendency to do wrong against my will. As something has involuntarily crept into my head through my eyes, I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong. View quote
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Translation 1: [...] I [...] have my own ideal, which I have served faithfully, though silently, for half a year; of which I dream, to thoughts of which the adagio of my concerto belongs, and which this morning inspired the little waltz I am sending you. View quote
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