I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.

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My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

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I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

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