Orts #882

The most profound truths, the most blasphemous things, the most terrible ideas, may be incorporated within the walls of a symphony, and the public be none the wiser.
     — James Huneker, 1904


Color is to the eye what music is to the ear.
     — Louis Comfort Tiffany


Everybody has to die, but I always hoped an exception might be made in my case.
     — William Saroyan


Every living creature is self-centred by nature; yet every human living creature's mission in life is to transfer the centre of his concern from himself to the ultimate reality, whatever that may be.
     -- Arnold Toynbee, to Bertrand Russell on his 95th birthday
 

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just for fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAm7KcvLbC4