A brass trumpet emerges from an open grey box beneath floating gold discs against turquoise.

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Twilight of the Idols

Friedrich Nietzsche

How little it takes to make us happy! The sound of a bagpipe. Without music life would be a mistake. The German even imagines God as singing songs.

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Nietzsche marvels at how little it takes to be happy, even a bagpipe. He declares that life without music would simply be a mistake. Even God, he adds, is pictured by the German as singing songs.

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