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Write To Me And Don't Be So Lazy. Otherwise I Shall Have To Give You A Thrashing. What Fun! I'll Break Your Head.

My Fatherland Has Always The First Claim On Me.

If Germany, My Beloved Fatherland, Of Whom You Know I Am Proud, Will Not Accept Me, Then Must I, In The Name Of God, Again Make France Or England Richer By One Capable German - And To The Shame Of The German Nation.

I Write [music] As A Sow Piddles.

The Most Necessary, Most Difficult And Principal Thing In Music, That Is Time.