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"Some creatives.. of predominantly schizoid or depressive temperaments.. use their creative capacities in a defensive way. If creative work protects one from mental illness, it is no wonder he pursues it avidly. The schizoid state... is characterised by meaninglessness, futility. For most, interaction with others provides what they require to find significance in life. For the schizoid, however, this isn't the case." — Mar 29, 2019 04:54AM
"Some creatives.. of predominantly schizoid or depressive temperaments.. use their creative capacities in a defensive way. If creative work protects one from mental illness, it is no wonder he pursues it avidly. The schizoid state... is characterised by meaninglessness, futility. For most, interaction with others provides what they require to find significance in life. For the schizoid, however, this isn't the case." — Mar 29, 2019 04:54AM
“As Duke Ellington once said, “There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind.” In that sense, jazz and classical music are fundamentally the same. The pure joy one experiences listening to “good” music transcends questions of genre.”
― Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa
― Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa
“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
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“The palest ink will endure beyond the memories of man”
― The Garden of Evening Mists
― The Garden of Evening Mists
“Elsewhere, people are too preoccupied by their day-to-day survival to take the time to write their collective history.”
― Ru
― Ru
“To have memories, happy or sorrowful, is a blessing, for it shows we have lived our lives without reservation.”
― The Gift of Rain
― The Gift of Rain
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