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What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?

Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're not doing something.

I'm working myself to death.

I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun?

If I quit having fun, then it's time for me to quit working.

One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death.

I can't die now, I have so much work to do.

When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous.

I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?

Even if I don't finish, we need others to continue. It's got to keep going without me.