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...A strange art -“ music -“ the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

…A strange art -“ music -“ the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
– Guy de Maupassant

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  3. And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation. – Oscar Wilde
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  11. Nature loves death: she will not punish it. – Guy de Maupassant
  12. Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist. – Guy de Maupassant
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  18. It is the encounters with people that make life worth living. – Guy de Maupassant
  19. What you love too violently finishes by killing you. – Guy de Maupassant
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