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Thoreau ([personal profile] thoreau) wrote2011-01-15 07:19 am
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15.365 Simplifications

January 15, 1857 - "But let us hear a strain of music, we are at once advertised of a life which no man had told us of, which no preacher preaches. Suppose I try to describe faithfully the prospect which a strain of music exhibits to me. The field of my life becomes a boundless plain, glorious to tread, with no death nor disappointment at the end of it. All meanness and trivialness disappear. I become adequate to any deed. No particulars survive this expansion; persons do not survive it. In the light of this strain there is no thou nor I. We are actually lifted above ourselves." - The Diary of Henry David Thoreau


Title: Listen to the music
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