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Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want

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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.
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I don't need sound to talk to me.
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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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