Frederic Chopin Quotes
When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.
Chopin, Frédéric. Chopin's Letters. Collected by Henryk Opieński, translated by E. L. Voynich, Alfred A. Knopf, 1931, p. 125.
Wallace had been a supporter of Russia throughout WWII and thought that on balance the Russian Revolution was a constructive historical event. He was very naive naïve the excess of Stalin and thought that the reports of his atrocities and excesses were propaganda. However, when he found out the truth about Stalinist Russia, he became an anti-Communist, and wrote this book. He also supported Dwight D. Eisenhower for President which added to some of the radical right wing distrust of Eisenhower.
Frédéric François Chopin, born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation."
