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A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.
Richard Wagner
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Richard Wagner
Age: 69 †
Born: 1813
Born: May 22
Died: 1883
Died: February 13
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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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I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.
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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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Those who grasp the whole, will also comprehend all parts of that whole, even when immediate technical understanding is lacking, and recognize and marshal these.
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For once you are going to hear a dream, a dream that I have made sound... I dreamed all this never could my poor head have invented such a thing.
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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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The long-term vision is to replace, repair and regenerate failing tissues and organs with the materials of tissues and organs. It's still 'out there,' but it's possible to put together a grant proposal now that doesn't sound completely crazy.
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You know my faithfulness to you, never can another own my heart, never - never - never...
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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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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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I know absolutely nothing about music.
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