"After playing Chopin, I feel as if..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.
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“No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.”
“Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.”
“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”
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“Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.”
“He is ugly and sad, but he is all love.”
“There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred.”