An idea from Either/Or

His longest essay argues that Mozart’s Don Giovanni stands above every other classic. Pure desire doesn’t stop to think, so words can’t hold it. Only music, which keeps moving through time, can carry it, and Don Juan is that music.

From Either/Or by Søren Kierkegaard

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