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Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know...

The Ring of the Nibelung

Joy is not in things it is in us.

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting m...

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What manner of thing this 'public opinion' is, should be best known to those who have its name forev...

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Imagination creates reality.

Parsifal is on his way to the temple of the Grail Knights and says: “I hardly move, yet far I seem t...

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I can't see the logic in medicating a grieving person like there was something wrong with her, and y...

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The Amateur's Guide To Death and Dying; Enhancing the End of Life

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is tha...

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I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my...

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Richard Wagner

Composer

Born: 1813-05-22

Died: 1883-02-13

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work of art"), by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama.More