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Woetoe
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‘When you’re playing, you are being your soul over and over. Playing music is the soul’s struggle to be in the fullest way, to keep learning new things and to have that show in the musical expression. When you play you have to face yourself over and over again in your limitations. You’re on the line from minute to minute.’
— Aug 18, 2026 12:38AM
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Woetoe
is on page 145 of 416
‘I, like many others, was susceptible to “bad faith” by wanting to be “above” it all. The fatal flaw of The Judge is wanting to be above the disease of addiction, and at the deepest level, above the finite human condition, to want to be so special that one does not deserve the “unjust” treatment of having a disease.’
— Aug 18, 2026 12:44AM
Woetoe
is on page 113 of 416
‘Perhaps our addictions are similar to Rilke’s dragons which can turn into princesses: if we turn and face them, there lies the surprise of the divine.’
— Jun 28, 2026 06:51AM
Woetoe
is on page 111 of 416
‘It is a mistake to reduce the life and work or the creative person to his disease. But it is also a mistake to ignore a disease such as addiction and romanticize its relation to creativity.’
— Jun 28, 2026 06:42AM
Woetoe
is on page 98 of 416
‘Intenseness and duration are as ancient enemies as fire and water. They are mutually destructive. They cannot co-exist.’
— Jun 28, 2026 05:15AM