The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.
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The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.
They were in the world and not of it--not because they were saints, but in a different way: because they were artists. The integrity of an artist lifts a man above the level of the world without delivering him from it.
Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different. For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.
Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.
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