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«The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.»
Author: Claude Levi-Strauss
(Philosopher)
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«There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth.»
Author: Heinz R. Pagels
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Existence
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Before and After, emptiness, here and there, plenum, sprang, The Void, void
«What terrible fear causes Man to address the Void as Thou?»
«One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.»
«God made everything out of the void, but the void shows through»
«In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.»
«In his poetry as well as in his life Shelley was indeed 'a beautiful and ineffectual angel', beating in the void his luminous wings in vain»
«It is not known precisely where angels dwell -- whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
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abode, dwell, informed, in the air, planets, precisely, The Planets, The Void, void, voids
«Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void»
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