I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside … - Frederic Chopin

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Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.

Frederic Chopin

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.

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The three most celebrated doctors on the island have been to see me. One sniffed at what I spat, the second tapped where I spat from, and the third sounded me and listened as I spat. The first said I was dead, the second that I was dying and the third that I'm going to die.

Death, Health, Islands, Dead, Doctors, See

Having nothing to do, I am correcting the Paris edition of Bach; not only the engraver's mistakes, but also the mistakes hallowed by those who are supposed to understand Bach (I have no pretensions to understand better, but I do think that sometimes I can guess).

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My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.

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Hats off, gentlemen - a genius! If the mighty autocrat of the north knew what a dangerous enemy threatened him in Chopin's works in the simple tunes of his mazurkas, he would forbid this music. Chopin's works are canons buried in flowers.

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Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars.

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