The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so ine…

Arthur Schopenhauer
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The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain… Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves. ✨ Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). 101 Facts of life, p.41, Publishdrive
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