I'd always had an ear for beauty, and maybe I'd had an eye for it as well, but until that day, I'd not recognized that the truth in great music could be found also in great art, that the heart could be lifted and the mind sharpened equally by both. Dean Koontz
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It was the day I met my wife. It was the day I first saw the Mona Lisa. And it was the day I fell in love with two things I never knew existed. That day changed everything, and the fact that it happened on one of the most famous days of art history made it even more special.

Source: The City

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