Tuesday, May 22, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for May 22, 2012



"How does it happen then that of the three arts that imitate Nature, the one whose expression is the most arbitrary and the least precise speaks the most powerfully to the soul?"

- Denis Diderot, on music, in his Lettre sur les sourds et muets.

Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk
May 16, 2012

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