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"The sideline has become the main job. I no longer have the opportunity of time for the supreme task which the Lord has entrusted to me…I find it repugnant to live in the midst of all this splendour. How people admire me and grovel to me! How I’d love to tell them how miserably modest I feel and that in my job here I want nothing but to do my duty."
taken from:
Mahler: His Life and Times page 80 Gustav Mahler letter to J and N Bauer Lechner.