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Richard Wagner
Age: 69 †
Born: 1813
Born: May 22
Died: 1883
Died: February 13
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The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.
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One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.
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If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.
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Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.
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It should not be presumed that these people (the Jews), who are so separated from us by their religion, have any right to make our laws. But why blame the Jews? It is we who lack all feeling for our own identity, all sense of honour.
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Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.
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Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
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Imagination creates reality.
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Blessed be, the genius who never knew good fortune! Genius in itself already means so much what meaning does luck still hold for him?
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A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.
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It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless he doesn't talk at all.
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The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation for they reveal, as it were, the primal stirrings of creation which brought order out of chaos long before the human heart was there to behold them.
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Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.
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I am writing Parsifal only for my wife - if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say.
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These revelations expressed through Art work upon the soul with a force carrying its own conviction and permeate our sentient life with a sense of truth which logic and mere reason are powerless to combat.
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You know my faithfulness to you, never can another own my heart, never - never - never...
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The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.
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It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.
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We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness
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Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.
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