"Musical people always want one to be..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
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“Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.”
“Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.”
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