Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.Victor Hugo
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
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It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary to dispel the superstitions that surround religion --to rid God of His Maggots.
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To love beauty is to see light.
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