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“The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

tags: art, communication, music, philosophy, power-of-music

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“Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade ?”
― Arthur Rimbaud

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“You look like a winter night", he had told her when he had given it to her. "I could sleep inside the cold of you.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

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“This is absurd, that mortals blame the gods! They say we cause their suffering, but they themselves increase it by their folly.”
― Emily Wilson, The Odyssey

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“Why do we desire, above all other things, that which has the greatest power to destroy us?”
― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens

tags: destruction, gadfly, love

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Welcome! This is a group for fans of the amazing, epic book Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo. This is a place to discuss everything to do with Six of Cro ...more

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