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Tomas Serrien

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Tomas Serrien writes about music, society and philosophy. In 2015 he won the Geert Grote Pen, a prize awarded to the best Dutch master’s thesis in philosophy. His thesis was the inspiration for his debut book ‘Klank: een filosofie van de muzikale ervaring’, published in December 2017. 'Klank' received a lot of good reviews, was nominated for a reader's prize and already is in its fourth print run.

In the fall of 2019, he wrote the book 'Lost in Enlightenment' for Borgerhoff & Lamberigts in collaboration with imam Khalid Benhaddou and political philosopher Patrick Loobuyck.

With the establishment of the independent website Mirari he developed an online platform for free dialogue. Tomas Serrien regularly lectures on music and philosophy and he
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Klank

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Well-researched but very academic book that asks relevant questions regarding the ‘romanticised myth’ around Gesualdo.

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Albert Camus
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
Albert Camus

Haruki Murakami
“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.”
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Haruki Murakami
“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

Woody Allen
“Human happiness does not seem to have been included in the design of creation. It is only we with our capacity to love that fives meaning to the indifferent universe, and yet most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even to find joy from simple things.”
Woody Allen

Vladimir Nabokov
“Words without experience are meaningless.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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