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The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.
I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.
Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so!
If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.
I will yield to popular demands only insofar as they do not betray my own convictions.
How often have I actually discovered in myself that enthusiasm raises the artist above himself, how in an ordinary mood one would not have been able to accomplish many of the things for which enthusiasm lends one everything, energy, fire.
I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose - there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?
He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child.
(on Liszt)
Is an artist much more than a beggar?
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?
Composing gives me great pleasure ... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound.
Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?
Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.
There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.
