a notion of the nature, meaning, and value of music—a philosophy of music, if you will—remains implicit rather than explicit.
“Sometimes, we want to love a person more than they deserve to be loved by us. And we’ll do a lot of rationalizing to fool ourselves into believing that they deserve it.”
― First Time: Penny
― First Time: Penny
“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”
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“Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.”
― In the Night Garden
― In the Night Garden
“One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
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