Music...is the vapour of art. It is to poetry what revery is to thought, what the fluid is to the liquid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.
Original text (French)
Original text (French)
Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and of grief!
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
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