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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1887

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

—W.H. Auden, c. 1940

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mold, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.

—Edward Gibbon, c. 1790

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1480

If a king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.

—Mencius, c. 330 BC
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