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Aldous Huxley on the Transcendent Power of Music and Why It Sings to Our Souls

By Maria Popova — 2016

“Without music life would be a mistake,” Nietzsche proclaimed in 1889. But although a great many beloved writers have extolled the power of music with varying degrees of Nietzsche’s bombast, no one has captured its singular enchantment more beautifully than Aldous Huxley (July, 26 1894–November 22, 1963).

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