Did all this make sense?

“One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that …”

“He began to suffocate slowly in the more and more rarefied atmosphere of remote…”

“The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the sam…”

“Einsamkeit ist Unabhängigkeit, ich hatte sie mir gewünscht und mir erworben in …”