The inexpressible depth of all music, by virtue of which it floats past us as a paradise quite familiar and yet eternally remote, and is so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain.
Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher
A. Schopenhaurer, The World as Will and Representation, Translated by E. F. J. Payne, Vol. 1, United States, Dover Publications, 1969, p. 264.
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