

“The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain… Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.”
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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols

“if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.”
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
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