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This passage reads as a contrast between grief and art. It suggests that even when ordinary life is shattered by sorrow, music can still sound clear and composed, as if beauty does not deny pain but survives alongside it. It lands in moments of mourning, when a work of art feels calm in a room full of loss.
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