
SPIEGEL Interview with Daniel Barenboim
"Thirty-three Happy Moments"
SPIEGEL Interview with Daniel Barenboim
Source: The house on the hill (1949), Chapter 1, p. 63
“I like to wake up each morning and not know what I think, that I may reinvent myself in some way.”
“Some people wake up drowsy. Some people wake up energized. I wake up dead.”
Source: Tomorrow, When the War Began
“Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for any one who dies.”
Letter to Mrs. Bryan Waller Procter (26 November 1856), from The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, ed. Edgar F. Harden [Garland Publishing, Inc., 1994, ISBN 9780824036461], vol. 1, p. 763.