Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.


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Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
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Applaud friends, the comedy is over. (Said as he was dying)
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Applaud friends, the comedy is over.
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I can live only wholly with you or not at all
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Ben buydum, buyum ve bu olacağım. Hiçbir ölümlü maskemi değiştiremez.
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Applaud my friends, the comedy is over...
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