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Then a short relief.
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But it evaporates at once,
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and the pain is the same.
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Total restraint the whole time.
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Chopin was proud, passionate,
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tormented and very manly.
He wasn't a mawkish old woman.
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This prelude must be
made to sound almost ugly.
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It is never ingratiating.
It should sound wrong.
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You have to battle your way
through it and emerge triumphant.
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Like this.