"I am not accustomed to being contradicted."

"Oh continue to love me–never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours."

"The true artist has no pride. He sees unfortunately that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad that he has not yet reached t…"

"What is good must be good already in the first draft."

"Ah it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I felt called upon me to produce, and so I endured this wretched existence."