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  • All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.

    Selected Letters (1983-1985): Letter 251, to Florence Barger, December 23, 1924.