“Music was a chain forged half of silences and half of sound, love was nothing without longing and loss, and were time not to have at its end the absence of time, and the absence of time not to have been preceded by time, neither would be of any consequence.”

Mark Helprin

Mark Helprin - “Music was a chain forged half of...” 1

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