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What Mozart expressed in his Fortieth Symphony was what, in a different way, Buddha expressed in many of his sermons--a melancholy, a sadness, a dissatisfaction with life amounting almost to rebellious protest. Yet in neither case does one leave it with a feeling of despair, as one does in the case of Tchaikovsky's Pathétique symphony. On the contrary, there seems to be a way of escape: with Buddha plainly stated as the "Noble Eightfold Path" to Nirvana, but with Mozart appearing only as the joy which is so fundamental in most of his other works.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 4 : Reflections On Specific Arts > # 320