Wonderful! They called me "Wonderful". So I said "Wonderful" - if you insist I will be "Wonderful". And they said "Wonderful". Believe me, it's hard to resist 'Cause it feels wonderful. They think I'm wonderful.
Seine neue Sinfonie ist nun allerdings ein Riesenwerk...., von eminentem Schwung und Kraft, neu und originell und doch von A bis Z eine echter Brahms, mit einem Worte eine Bereicherung Musikwelt "
Richard Strauss über Johannes Brahms ( 4. Sinfonie e-Moll / 1884 )
(...) Wie immer fühle ich aber auch eine endlose Traurigkeit, die meine Seele beschleicht, ein unbeschreibliches Verlangen nach etwas, das ich nicht in Worte fassen kann, Wehmut über ein Woanders, das ich nicht benennen kann (...)
The longer you have to wait for something, the more you will appreciate it when it finally arrives. The harder you have to fight for something, the more priceless it will become once you achieve it. And the more pain you have to endure on your journey, the sweeter the arrival at your destination. All good things are worth waiting for and worth fighting for.
If you are uncomfortable — in deep pain, angry, yearning, confused you don't have a problem, you have a life. Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was ever supposed to be easy.
Grow up as good revolutionaries. Study hard to be able to dominate the techniques that permit the domination of nature. Remember that the Revolution is what is important and that each of us, on our own, is worthless.