"He needed that silence to make beauty audible, and for beauty to be perceptible, it needs a minimal degree of silence. (Yes, I realize you don’t know what I’m talking about, because beauty vanished long ago. It vanished under the surface of the noise—the noise of words, the noise of cars, the noise of music—we live in constantly. It has been drowned like Atlantis. All that remains of it is the word, whose meaning becomes less intelligible with every passing year.)" — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: Lost Letters 

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