I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, and yet I take a kind … - Frederic Chopin - Quotesmemo.com

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Dance, v. i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.

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Frederic Chopin

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

Happiness, Indulging, Life, Philosophy, Thoughts, Wish

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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.

Stars, Ciphers, Helping, Like, Astronomer

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Dance, v. i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.

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