“I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.”
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My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.