Original German Script with English Translation:

"[B]ut what a humiliation when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone heard a shepherd singing, and I also heard nothing... such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, a little more, and I would have ended my life - only you, art, held me back, ah, it seemed impossible to me to leave the world until I had brought forth everything that I felt was within me, so I endured this wretched life -"