A man endures misfortune without complaint.
Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.
No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy... My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best.
Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy.
I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.
No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.