Belligerents always abolish war after a war.
To think of losing is to lose already.
when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.
I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
Happy is the day whose history is not written down.
I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism of being both writer and musician. No wonder that selfish beast Wagner kept it all to himself.