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"The fabric of existence weaves itself whole."
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"Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice."
"On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's history; and as there had been a beginning of life upon it, so, under the influence of other conditions, there would be an end: man, no more significant than other forms of life, had come not as the climax of creation but as a physical reaction to the environment."
"Explore the infinite possibilities in existence."
"But what is your life? Can you see it? It vanishes at its own appearance. Moment by moment. Until it vanishes to appear no more. When you look at the world is there a point in time when the seen becomes the remembered? How are they separate? It is that which we have no way o show. It is that which is missing from our map and from the picture that it makes. And yet is all we have."
"Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, 'I am.' We are ontological oxymorons."
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"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."
"In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind."
"If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?"
"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."
"There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life."
"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."
"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."
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