Jacques Barzun Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: November 30, 1907 - October 25, 2012
Birthday: November 30
Death: October 25
Maxims in times of danger are useless, experience is incommunicable. The knotted strands of life, desire, assumptions, and moral codes cannot be unsnarled; they can only be cut, which is what happens when an air raid occurs, with a silencing fortissimo like the finale of a Beethoven symphony.
topic: Cutting, Air, Symphony, Finale, Silencing
