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“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
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“But an essentially mechanical world would be an essentially meaningless world! Suppose that one assessed the value of a piece of music according to how much of it could be counted, calculated, put into formulas; how absurd such a 'scientific' assessment of music would be! What would one have comprehended, understood, known about it? Nothing, absolutely nothing of what is really 'music' in it!”
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“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”
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“Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes viros.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.”
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.”
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“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
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