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Debussy was not in any sense a super-Wagner, not slightly more advanced than Wagner.
If Debussy was not independent of Wagner, he was seeking nevertheless, after the feeling of satiety that people were beginning to derive from work that was too complete, in which everything was expressed, to satisfy an opposite demand.
We must always make use of the weapons that we have captured to free ourselves finally from the foe whom we have for the moment overpowered.
-- My understanding of Proust.
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