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“Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.”
― Cold Mountain
― Cold Mountain
“He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.”
― Cold Mountain
― Cold Mountain
“One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to it. The grouping of sounds, their forms in the air as they rang out and faded, said something comforting to him about the rule of Creation. What the music said was that there is a right way for things to be ordered so that life might not always be just tangle and drift, but have a shape, an aim. It was a powerful argument that life did not just happen.”
― Cold Mountain
― Cold Mountain
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