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I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety, dreams - or sleeplessness - melancholy, indifference - desire for life, and the next instant, desire for death; some kind of sweet peace, some kind of numbness, absent-mindedness.

Frederic Chopin
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Frederic Chopin's Popular Quotes

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

- Frederic Chopin

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

- Frederic Chopin

The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity that matters…

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Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.

- Frederic Chopin

Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.

- Frederic Chopin

Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

- Frederic Chopin

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

- Frederic Chopin

Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars . . . Beethoven embraced the universe with the power of his …

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Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.

- Frederic Chopin
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