That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.
I took to my room and let small things evolve slowly.
Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself.
Je suis venu au monde tres jeune dans un temps tres vieux
When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.
I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.
Last year I gave several lectures on "Intelligence and Musicality among Animals". . . Today I am going to speak to you about "Intelligence and Musicality among Critics". . . The subject is much the same, with some modifications, of course.
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.
What happened to me by myself felt partly dreamed, partly imagined, definitely shifted and warped by my own fears and wants. But who knows? Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
We can be unhappy about many things, but jy can still be there. . . It is important to become aware that at every moment of our life we have an opportunity to choose joy. . . It is in the choice that our true freedom lies, and that freedom is, in the final analysis, the freedom to love.