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There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
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The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.
The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859), Vol. I, Ch. II
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There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.