Writing [for the novelist] is not an activity, but a condition. That is why one simply can't resume the work when one has a job and a free half-day. Reading is the conveyance of this condition.
The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mentall illnesses, and the mentally … - Robert Musil
The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mentall illnesses, and the mentally …
- Robert Musil
One does what one is; one becomes what one does. - Robert Musil
One does what one is; one becomes what one does.
... for the modern soul, for which it is mere child's play to bridge oceans and continents, there is nothing so impossible as to find the contact wit… - Robert Musil
... for the modern soul, for which it is mere child's play to bridge oceans and continents, there is nothing so impossible as to find the contact wit…
Layer by layer art strips life bare. - Robert Musil
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress… - Robert Musil
Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress…
...love must be regarded as one of the religious and dangerous experiences, because it lifts people out of the arms of reason and sets them afloat wi… - Robert Musil
...love must be regarded as one of the religious and dangerous experiences, because it lifts people out of the arms of reason and sets them afloat wi…
Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop. - Robert Musil
Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.
True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end. - Robert Musil
True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.
One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic. - Robert Musil
One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.
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