Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.
Interpretation
Music serves as a healing force that allows us to forget our troubles and focus on what we cherish most.
In this quote, Ivo Andric highlights the therapeutic power of music, suggesting that forgetfulness can be a remedy for life's hardships. He emphasizes that through song, individuals are able to immerse themselves in feelings of love and joy, enabling them to escape from pain and find solace in the beauty of their emotions.
In practice
During a speech about overcoming difficulties, one might quote Andric to emphasize the therapeutic effect of music.
Of everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad.
It seems to me, that if people only knew how hard it was for me to endure life, they would find it easier to forgive me for all the wrong things Iβve done and all the good things that I have failed to do. And they would still find a little compassion within them to pity me.
To be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence, to be obliged to swim, to exist; to have an identity; to resist the pressure and shocks from the outside and the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts - one's own and those of others - which so often exceed one's capacities? And what is more, to endure one's own thoughts about all this: in a word, to be human.
That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.
Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.
Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.
It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.
To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can't be separated.
Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.
I'm not an actor because I want my picture taken. I'm an actor because I want to be part of the human exchange.
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