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Of himself he said that "he
was in this world like the E string of a violin on a contrabass."
This "divine dissatisfaction" led him to extremes: to the
flouting of friends for fancied affronts, to the snubbing of
artists who sometimes visited him. He grew suspicious of Liszt
and for ten years was not on terms of intimacy with him although
they never openly quarrelled.
The breach which had been very perceptibly widening became
hopeless in 1847, when Sand and Chopin parted forever. A
literature has grown up on the subject. Chopin never had much to
say but Sand did; so did Chopin's pupils, who were quite virulent
in their assertions that she killed their master. The break had
to come. It was the inevitable end of such a friendship. The
dynamics of free-love have yet to be formulated. This much we
know: two such natures could never entirely cohere. When the
novelty wore off the stronger of the two--the one least in love--
took the initial step. It was George Sand who took it with
Chopin. He would never have had the courage nor the will.


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