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“But there are two kinds of escape. There is the escape from something, motivated by fear; and the escape to something, motivated by longing. To confuse the second with the first is to confuse strength with weakness, courage with cowardice, love with fear. “All life,” said the wise witch of Edmonton, “is a wandering to find home,” and nothing will ever finally extinguish this conviction of the human heart.”
― Savage and Beautiful Country
― Savage and Beautiful Country
“Music is the space between the notes.”
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“Isn't a bookshop, to some extent, a temple to Browsing?”
― A Mammal's Notebook: Collected Writings of Erik Satie
― A Mammal's Notebook: Collected Writings of Erik Satie
“The century of airplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.”
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“For the scientific impulse and the religious impulse — the search for fact and the search for value — are the two prime and vital movements of the human spirit. … Granted exactly equal validity, pursued with exactly equal sincerity, the search for fact and the search for value lead to the threshold of the world of meaning which is at once their origin and their goal.”
― Savage and Beautiful Country
― Savage and Beautiful Country
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