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Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

~Richard Wagner

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I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.

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What manner of thing this 'public opinion' is, should be best known to those who have its name forever in their mouths and erect the regard for it into a positive article of religion. Its self-styled organ in our times is the 'Press.'

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Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.

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I have only a mind to live, to enjoy - i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not for the muddy brains of the common herd.

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I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

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Though German art can never be Bavarian, but simply German, yet Munich is the capital of this German Art; here, under shelter of a Prince who kindles my enthusiasm, to feel myself a native and member of the people was, to me, the homeless wanderer, a deep, a genuine need.

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Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.

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I was in a state of gnawing, sensuous agitation that excited continually both blood and nerves when I sketched out the music for 'Tannhauser' and brought it to completion.

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Life is earnest - and always has been.

~Richard Wagner

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Composer

Born: May 22nd, 1813

Died: February 13th, 1883

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