It is cruel, you know, that music

“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”

— Benjamin Britten

Author: Benjamin Britten
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It is cruel, you know, that music

“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”

— Benjamin Britten

Author: Benjamin Britten
Category: freedom
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It is cruel, you know, that music

“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”

— Benjamin Britten

Author: Benjamin Britten
Category: strength
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It is cruel, you know, that music

“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”

— Benjamin Britten

Author: Benjamin Britten
Category: beauty
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It is cruel, you know, that music

“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”

— Benjamin Britten

Author: Benjamin Britten
Category: nature
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