This is form the Funeral Oration
for Beethoven's Funeral
the funeral oration was written by Franz Grillparzer
Ludwig Van Beethoven was an artist, and what he was, he was only through music. The thorns of life had wounded him deeply but he held fast to his art and even when the gate through which it had entered was shut, it spoke through a deafened ear to him who could no longer hear he carried the music in his heart
He was an artist, but also a man, a man in every sense, in the highest sense. Because he shut himself off from the world, they called him hostile; and callous, because he shunned feelings. Oh, he who knows he is hardened does not flee! (It is the more delicate point that is most easily blunted, that bends or breaks.)
He withdrew from his fellow men after he had given them everything and had received nothing in return. He remained alone because he found no second self.
Thus he was, thus he died, thus he will live for all time
