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" (133) Night and music. - The ear, the organ of fear, could have evolved as greatly as it has only in the night and twilight of obscure caves and woods [...]: in bright daylight the ear is less necessary. That is how music acquired the character of an art of night and twilight. "

Friedrich Nietzsche , A Nietzsche Reader


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Friedrich Nietzsche quote : (133) Night and music. - The ear, the organ of fear, could have evolved as greatly as it has only in the night and twilight of obscure caves and woods [...]: in bright daylight the ear is less necessary. That is how music acquired the character of an art of night and twilight.