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" We live at the edge of the miraculous. "

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" It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir. "

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" Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously. "

" Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. "

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