I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.

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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

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I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi.

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I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness. And yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

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...the Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense.

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All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used to the piano-pounding of the artists here.

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Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

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I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all those strange faces.

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