«If you ask some one: ‘Can you play the violin?’ and he says: ‘I don’t know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,’ you laugh at him. Whereas about writing, people always say: ‘I don’t know, I have not tried,’ as though one had only to try and one would become a writer.»
Tolstói
Talks with Tolstoi · A. B. Goldenveizer
Translated by S. S. Koteliansky and Virginia Woolf
Project Gutenberg eBook #65159
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Merry Company of Three Boys with a Violin
Jacob Gole · ca. 1670–1724
Rijksmuseum · RP-P-2001-40
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