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Musical compositions can be very sad - chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. the cheap consolation is: you will be happy. the higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
-Umberto Eco
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Musical Compositions Can Be Very Sad -

Umberto Eco
Musical compositions can be very sad - chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. the cheap consolation is: you will be happy. the higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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