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"All qualities are united in music: it can lift us up, it can be capricious, it can cheer us up and delight us, nay, with its soft, melancholy tunes, it can even break the resistance of the toughest character. Its main purpose, however, is to lead our thoughts upward, so that it elevates us, even deeply moves us. ..."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Über Musik" [On Music] (in: "Aus meinem Leben" [From my Life])1858

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