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    Mozart's letters: 10 wonderful, emotional and bizarre quotes

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    Mozart was a prolific letter-writer, and these quotes show us some startling aspects to the composer's personality: scatological, funny, romantic and poignant - take a look through Mozart's private letters.

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      1. I kiss you millions of times

      "An astonishing number of kisses are flying about! I see a whole crowd of them. Ha! Ha! I have just caught three — They are delicious… I kiss you millions of times." - To Constanze Mozart, September 1790

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      2. So simple

      "To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it." - To Leopold Mozart, 1782

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      3. I'll break your head

      "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." - To his sister, June 1770

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      4. Love true true true until the grave

      "To every good friend I send my greet feet; addio nitwit. Love true true true until the grave, if I live that long and do behave." - To his cousin, Marianne, November 1777

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      5. A good figure

      "She’s only pretty in that she has two small black eyes and a good figure." - To Leopold Mozart, about Constanze, his future wife

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      6. Cold as ice

      "If people could see into my heart, I should almost feel ashamed — all there is cold, cold as ice." - To Constanze Mozart, September 1790

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      7. The opera has made my fingers painful

      "I can’t write much, because writing so many parts of the opera has made my fingers painful." - To Leopold Mozart, 1770

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      8. I am a composer

      "I am a composer, and I was born a Kapellmeister. I must not and cannot bury my Gift for Composing." - To Leopold Mozart, February 1778

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      9. Religion

      "Friends who have no religion cannot be long our friends." - To Leopold Mozart, February 1778

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      10. Death on my tongue

      "I already have the taste of death on my tongue, and who can support my dearest Constanze if you do not stay?" - To his sister-in-law Sophie, December 1791

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