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“Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.”
―
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.”
―
“People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.”
―
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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Winter solitude-
in a world of one colour
the sound of the wind.”
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in a world of one colour
the sound of the wind.”
―
“Harvest moon:
around the pond I wander
and the night is gone.”
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around the pond I wander
and the night is gone.”
―
¡ POETRY !
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