Empirical Rationalist
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“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
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“There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.”
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
“After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.”
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