"It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.“


-William Makepeace Thackeray

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It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

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"I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys."

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