"Now, there are some periods of music, some pitches of which I can hear nothing... of my music as well as of others. I feel that there is on my shoulders nothing more than a terrible cloak of misery and discouragement."

"It was not just in the Andante of the Second Quartet that I remembered having translated the distant memory of bells which in the evening at Montgauzy — and this is some time ago — came to us from a v…"

"The immense and uncontrollable blood-baths, the brutality with which civilian populations were massacred and women and girls were dragged into harems which to the Hindus appeared as no better than bro…"

"I first saw the light on the 5th of August, 1860, I was born in Lee Street, Wharf Street, Leicester. The deformity which I am now exhibiting was caused by my mother being frightened by an Elephant; my…"

"There are significant strategic interests , and there's a lot of stuff going on that's important. Not just the United States. For example, France is doing some really vicious things there, in fact the…"