"The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence."

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Source : Quoted in Harold Atkins and Archie Newman Beecham Stories (1978).

Sebastian Horsley

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“True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.”
“It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive action”
“But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on out into the New Jerusalem: the ability to take our freedom seriously and act on it, to live not in fear of mistakes but in the knowledge that no mistake can hold a candle to the love that draws us home. My repentance, accordingly, is not so much for my failings but for the two-bit attitude toward them by which I made them more sovereign than grace. Grace - the imperative to hear the music, not just listen for errors - makes all infirmities occasions of glory.”
“I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated . . .”

Source : Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.291, Pan Macmillan
“Being able to step outside of yourself in order to help someone else is why we're all here, it's what we should all be doing if we can.”

Source : "Pop Sovereign: A Conversation With Madonna". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.
“Okay, so let's run faster.”
“One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.”

Source : Alexandre Dumas (2016). “My Memoirs (1802 to 1833)”, p.1444, Library of Alexandria
“Military weapons are the means used by the Sage to punish violence and cruelty, to give peace to troublous times, to remove difficulties and dangers, and to succor those who are in peril. Every animal with blood in its veins and horns on its head will fight when it is attacked. How much more so will man, who carries in his breast the faculties of love and hatred, joy and anger! When he is pleased, a feeling of affection springs up within him; when angry, his poisoned sting is brought into play. That is the natural law which governs his being”

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