“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.”
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
