"If I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career; yet I know how much I still lack, to reach perfection; I see it the more clearly now that I live only among first-rank artists and know what each one of them lacks."

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Source : Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.169, Courier Corporation

Frederic Chopin

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“The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere.”
“The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings.”
“For me, like when you've put yourself out there emotionally, physically, and you've really put yourself on the line, for me, that means I've really done something.”
“Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.”
“And all the times I was picking up potatoes, I did have conversations with them. Too, I did have thinks of all their growing days there in the ground, and all the things they did hear. Earth-voices are glad voices, and earth-songs come up from the ground through the plants; and in their flowering, and in the days before these days are come, they do tell the earth-songs to the wind ... I have thinks these potatoes growing here did have knowings of star-songs.”
“I like to admire. I'm a fan of beauty.”
“Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.”
“One of the most common mistakes people make in any conversation is to think about what they want to say next instead of actually listening to what the other person is saying.”

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