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1 " There is no such thing as happy music. "
― Franz Schubert
2 " I am in the world only for the purpose of composing. "
3 " With a heart filled with endless love for those who scorned me, I wandered far away. For many and many a year I sang songs. Whenever I tried to sing of love, it turned to pain. And again, when I tried to sing of pain, it turned to love. "
4 " Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. "
5 " No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by. "
6 " My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs. "
7 " Those who are born of grief give greatest delight to the outside world. "
8 " For long years I felt torn between the greatest grief and the greatest love. . . . Whenever I attempted to sing of love, it turned to pain. And again, when I tried to sing of pain, it turned to love. Thus were love and pain divided in me. "
9 " No one understands another’s grief, no one understands another’s joy. . . . My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best. "
