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name: "Mikhail Bakunin on Beethoven's Ninth"
date: 2026-06-21
link: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin"
linkText: "en.wikiquote.org"
source: "Wikiquote"
topics: [words-and-humor]
tags: [music, art, transcendence, anarchism]
description: "On art outlasting the world."
---

> Everything will pass, and the world will perish, but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

— Mikhail Bakunin. Wikiquote Quote of the Day.