Charles Hebenstreit

“I love all those who are heavy drops falling from the dark cloud that hangs over men: they herald the advent of lightning, and, as heralds, they perish.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I’ll teach you differences'.
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'You’d be surprised' wouldn’t be a bad motto either.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven