“It is good that for the moment you are going into a profession which will make you independent and mean you only have yourself to rely on, in every sense. Have the patience to wait and see whether your inmost life feels confined by the form of this occupation. I consider it a very difficult and a very demanding one...”
About This Quote
Letter to Franz Xaver Kappus (Worpswede near Bremen, 16 July 1903).
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