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- In a world where no one memorizes poetry, how will any two people know if they have a spiritual affinity to one another? What is the highest art — in other words — other than a means of finding correspondence?
- What most of us live for is magical coincidence — and if we don’t get it, we manufacture it.
- Mozart’s music is one of those machines we use to manufacture coincidence; it is impossible to listen to Mozart and not imagine that the earth is infused with improbable graces.
- A civilization that increasingly gives up on reproduction and child-rearing as an ends cannot expect new ends to magically emerge; expect only a yawning void.
