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"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist."
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"When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!"

"To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to image a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!"

"As I fingered my way through the songs, I felt my worries slough away. My music has always been the best remedy for my dark moods. As I sang, even my bruises seemed to pain me less."

"As sunlight is for flowers, and sustenance for the mortal shell, music is for the human soul."

"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

"When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility."

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them."

"The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things."

"Nobody can imagine how nothing could turn into something. Nobody can get an inch nearer to it by explaining how something could turn into something else. It is really far more logical to start by saying 'In the beginning God created heaven and earth' even ifyou only mean 'In the beginning some unthinkable power began some unthinkable process.' For God is by its nature aname of mystery, and nobody ever supposed that man could imagine how a world was created any more than he couldcreate one. But evolution really is mistaken for explanation. It has the fatal quality of leaving on many minds the impression that they do understand it and everything else."

"Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written."
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