"Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb a the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf."
— Oscar Wilde

January 1, 1970

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Oscar Wilde
Original Language: English
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German: "Musiker sind so absurd unvernünftig. Sie wollen, dass man vollkommen stumm ist, während man selbst sich danach sehnt, absolut taub zu sein."

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Mabel Chiltern, Act II

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde

Mabel Chiltern, Act II