Intimate Letters Quotes

“And don’t be ashamed of your nature. It’s so dear, so very dear to me. You are laughter ‘mixed’ from tears. It is that nature - I understand it quite a lot already - which is almost chronically sensitive. You are difficult to understand. What surrounds you is hard - and, Kamilka, heartless. It’s better to avoid hard stones than to fall among them.”
― Leoš Janáček, Intimate Letters: Leoš Janáček to Kamila Stösslová