I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion.
These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there!
Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.
Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary.
My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse -- I have touched success, and allowed it to escape me.
It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past.