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“Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation.”
― Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
― Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
“If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us--through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions; and, not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations. Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives--we are each of us unique.”
― The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
― The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
“We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.”
― Seeing Voices
― Seeing Voices
“At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.”
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“There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate—the genetic and neural fate—of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”
― Gratitude
― Gratitude
Devanshi’s 2024 Year in Books
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