One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

I don't play accurately-any one can play accurately- but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.