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"The fabric of existence weaves itself whole."
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"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."
"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."
"I am alive because you want me to."
"Life before consciousness was like blank paper, so be it."
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"If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?"
"Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world."
"But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense."
"It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience."
"If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven."
"One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife."
"A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity."
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