The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion, a question which will be one of life or death, good health or chronic disease, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever.

My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.

Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.

My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them. I devour them with fury.

I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.