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“Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.”
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“It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce”
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“Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.”
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“I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.”
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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