Aesthetics Quote by Gustav Mahler

““When a man, filled with a mixture of reverence and bewilderment, asks, “What on earth does this all mean?”, a child will answer him with the fourth movement [of his Fourth Symphony]: “This is the life of the Kingdom of Heaven.””

Gustav Mahler

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