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When I feel the urge to compose, I begin byappealing directly to my Maker and I first ask Him the three most important questions pertaining to our life here in this worldöwhence, wherefore, whither.

-Brahms,Johannes
Quoted in  A Hopkins Music  All  Around Me (1967).

Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Adonais, stanza 21.

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