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Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Musik höhere Offenbarung ist als alle Weisheit und Philosophie.

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Goethe's Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde: Seinem Denkmal, Volume 2, Dümmler, 1835, p. 193.

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O you miserable scoundrel, what I shit is better than anything you ever thought.

Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Ich werde im Himmel hören! (I will hear in heaven!)

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

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