“Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.”
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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
Music fathoms the sky.
Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.