"They want me to give another concert but I have no desire to do so. You cannot imagine what a torture the three days before a public appearance are to me."

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I have met a great celebrity, Madame Dudevant, known as George Sand... Her appearance is not to my liking. Indeed there is something about her which positively repels me... What an unattractive person La Sand is... Is she really a woman? I'm inclined to doubt it.

— Frederic Chopin