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“The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“It’s funny, I thought, how the people who seem the meanest, the people we want nothing to do with, might be in the most pain.”
― Michael Patrick MacDonald, All Souls: A Family Story from Southie

“Music requires a particular type of education which is simply not given to most people. And, as a result, it’s set further apart. It has a special place. People who are familiar with painting and photography and drama and dance, and so on, cannot talk so easily about music. And yet, as Nietzsche writes in The Birth of Tragedy, music is potentially the most accessible art form because, with the Apollonian and the Dionysian coming together, it makes a”
― Edward W. Said, Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges