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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.
Richard Wagner
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Richard Wagner
Age: 69 †
Born: 1813
Born: May 22
Died: 1883
Died: February 13
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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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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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Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.
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