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Cultural history works in two directions: works of music, or any other art, are both products of their time and contributions toward it. That is to say, artists invent new things as much as they respond to existing ones.
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William Shakespeare
“If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,
That, notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
Of what validity and pitch soe'er,
But falls into abatement and low price,
Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy
That it alone is high fantastical.”
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Charles Dickens
“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
Charles Dickens

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well,
He hardly will be caught a second time.”
Johann wolfgang von Goethe, Faust: Part 1

William Shakespeare
“I say, there is no darkness
but ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled than
the Egyptians in their fog.”
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Ian McEwan
“It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.”
Ian McEwan, Atonement

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