German - Composer | May 22, 1813 - February 13, 1883
We find personal success and great, if not enduring, influence on the outer fashioning of the world allotted to the violent, the passionate individual who, unchaining the elemental principles of human impulse under favoring circumstances, points out to greed and self-indulgence the speedy pathways to their satisfaction.
Richard Wagner
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Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
ResultSourceSeldomWorries
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
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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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Imagination creates reality.
ImaginationRealityCreates
Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.
FishGoWhereverWhere
Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
MusicBetterWhoThanSoundsWrote
How absurd these critics must seem to me, who in their modern wantonness have become so ingenious. They want to interpret my Tannhauser as specifically Christian and impute to him a tendency to impotent glorification!
MeChristianWantBecomeCritics
I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my head, to the extent that I need all my strength to wrest myself from them.
StrengthMyselfEnoughNewNeed
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.
WorkLiveMindEnjoyArtistBrains
Here, everything is tragic through and through, and the will, that fain would shape a world according to its wish, at last can reach no greater satisfaction than the breaking of itself in dignified annulment.
WorldReachWishSatisfactionWill
In no State is there a weightier law than that which centers its stability in the supreme hereditary power of one particular family, unconnected and un-commingling with any other lineage in that State.
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