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“Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school, TV, and loading the dishwasher after dinner.”
― Horns
― Horns
“The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.”
― Birdsong
― Birdsong
“I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“But I didn't really mind it because I knew that it
takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it to know what
true freedom is.”
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takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it to know what
true freedom is.”
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“Sometimes life turns out hard, Isabel. Sometimes it just bites right through you. And sometimes, just when you think it's done its worst, it comes back and takes another chunk.”
― The Light Between Oceans
― The Light Between Oceans
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