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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.

John Cage

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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
Composer
Illustrator
Music Theorist
Musician
Musicologist
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.
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