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For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.
Robert Schumann
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Robert Schumann
Age: 46 †
Born: 1810
Born: June 8
Died: 1856
Died: July 29
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Robert Alexander Schumann
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We liked it or I didn't like it people say. As if it were nothing higher than to please the people!
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I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.
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