The worst

“[It is] the most repugnant thing I have ever seen or heard in all my life.”
— German pianist and composer, Clara Schumann, commenting on Wagner’s music drama, Tristan und Isolde.

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Whether you agree or not, you might pause to appreciate the passion in the sentiment and the conviction of the opinion.

We need to feel deeply. We need to see, to experience, and to intimately know our own likes and dislikes.

As the maxim instructs: know thyself.