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Quote by Baruch Spinoza
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indi

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. – Baruch Spinoza

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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. – Baruch Spinoza

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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. – Baruch Spinoza

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Ive got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things. – Brian Eno

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Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off. – Bryan Ferry

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