Pistorius, himself full-grown and an eccentric, taught me to preserve my courage and my self-esteem.
In constantly finding some value in my words, in my dreams, in the play of my imagination and in my ideas,
in taking them seriously and discussing them, he set me an example.
“You have told me,” he said, “that you like music because it is not moral.
Well, all right. But you should be no moralist yourself!
You should not compare yourself with others. If nature had created you to be a bat, you ought not to want to make yourself into an ostrich.
You often consider yourself as singular, you reproach yourself with going ways different from most people.
You must get out of that habit. Look in the fire, look at the clouds,
and as soon as you have presentiments, and the voices of your soul begin to speak,
yield to them and don’t first ask what the opinion of your master or your father would be,
or whether they would be pleasing to some god or other.
One spoils oneself that way. In doing that one treads the common road, becomes a fossil.
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