I Have Witnessed And Greatly Enjoyed The First Act Of Everything Which Wagner Created, But The Effect On Me Has Always Been So Powerful That One Act Was Quite Sufficie

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I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which
Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that
one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have
gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire
opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.
--Mark Twain, 1891

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