Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation
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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.John Cage
The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning
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There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.
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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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