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Schopenhauer says somewhere that if the entire universe should vanish the only thing left would be music.

— Cormac McCarthy

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Schopenhauer says somewhere that if the entire universe should vanish the only thing left would be music." in the context of "" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Cormac McCarthy

About Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.; July 20, 1933 – June 13, 2023) was an American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter. He wrote twelve novels, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western, modernist, and post-apocalyptic fiction genres.