Music is essentially useless, as life is.

George Santayana in Life of Reason (1905)
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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

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Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

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Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

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