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Clara and Robert Schumann, 1850
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"I often reproach myself for being dissatisfied. I have a faithful girl, no cares for the next few days, many friends who think of me lovingly, music, poetry, the hope of a wonderful future, and then the firm conviction of your steadfastness, your devotion to me, don't I? And yet! And yet! You know everything, know me and forgive me."
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Robert Schumann, in a letter to Clara, January 2, 1839
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"I must confess to you, my dear husband, that I have never lived such happy days as those just passed, and surely I am the happiest wife on earth."
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Clara Schumann, in their marriage diaries, during the second week of her marriage to Robert, September 20-27, 1840
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"Thank you, too, my dear Johannes, for all your kindness to my Clara. She speaks of it constantly in her letters."
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Robert Schumann, in a letter to Johannes Brahms from the asylum, November 27, 1854
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"How long the separation from your wife seemed to me! I had grown used to her uplifting presence and had spent such a magnificent summer with her. I had grown to admire and love her so much that everything else seemed empty to me and I could only long to see her again."
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Johannes Brahms in a letter to Robert Schumann at the mental asylum in Endenich, November 30, 1854
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"I wish I could write to you as tenderly as I love you and tell you all the good things that I wish you. You are so infinitely dear to me, dearer than I can say."
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Johannes Brahms to Clara Schumann, May 31, 1856
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"No one on whom [my mother's] eyes have rested could have forgotten the tale they told of her true kindness of heart, her benevolence. They searched and understood you at a glance, they 'wrapped you round,' as a dear friend once said. When the conversation turned on art, on noble qualities, on beauties of nature, they looked as though she could see into a world more beautiful than this."
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Eugenie Schumann, Clara's daughter, in her memoirs published in 1927
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