From Jankelevitch's Music and the Ineffable:
"...anyone who seeks music somewhere will never find it: our curiosity will end up disappointed if we aspire to some revelation of who-knows-what anatomy of musical discourse. But if we agree, in the end, that we are dealing with a mystery and not some material secret, with a Charm and not a thing; if we understand that this Charm is wholly dependent on human intention, on the moment in time, the spontaneous lurch of our hearts; if we realize that such a Charm is fragile and not always obvious to our minds and is allied to so many imponderable factors; that it depends first and foremost on our own honesty; the and only then will we know how to consent to this, the Charm created by music, which is the only, true state of Grace."
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