Sunday, March 9, 2025

Quotes from all sorts of places


Moon and the Pleiades go down.
Midnight and tryst pass by.
I, though, lie
Alone.
--Sappho (c. 630 - 570 BC)

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth
is capable of converting it into a fact.
 --Honoré de Balzac

'Animal spirits' are the spirits of the anima, the soul, within the human body.
They govern our higher actions.
--François Rabelais

...all great violinists, with the exception of Paganini, have always been Jews.
--Dictionary of the Khazars, Milorad Pavić

Perhaps not all. Here is the very fine violinist Shunske Sato playing the Violin Partita no. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 by J. S. Bach:



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