Notes on Notes
Essays on music: the stories it tells, and what it leaves us to live by.
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“When they’re really possessed by what they do, they’d rather stop eating and sleeping than give up practicing their arts.” – Marcus Aurelius
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“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati : that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
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“It is a sore thing to have labored along and scaled arduous hilltops, and when all is done, find humanity indifferent to your achievement.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
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