“There is so much that is true in your letter — if not all— and I must confess that with remorse and regret; but with pleasure and satisfaction I realise how kind it is — only an angel like you could have written so kindly… Life is a wild polyphony, but often a good woman like you can bring about some exquisite resolution of its discords.”

— Johannes Brahms

Letter to Clara Schumann (15 October 1868), as quoted in Johannes Brahms : A Biography (1997) by Jan Swafford, p. 340

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