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If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.
Robert Musil
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Author Profession:
Writer
Nationality:
Austrian
Born:
November 6
, 1880
Died:
April 15
, 1942
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Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?
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Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together.
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People
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Life is to blame for everything.
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It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.
Robert Musil
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Value
New
Direction
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
Robert Musil
Life
Art
Bare
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Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.
Robert Musil
Progress
Stop
Wonderful
Only
It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!
Robert Musil
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Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.
Robert Musil
People
World
Army
Violence
On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room.
Robert Musil
People
World
Real
Two People
A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.
Robert Musil
Man
Stupid
Deep
Literature
Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.
Robert Musil
Today
Start
Diary
Need
The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again.
Robert Musil
Thoughts
Attention
Something
Days
The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.
Robert Musil
Beautiful
Beauty
Art
Me
It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.
Robert Musil
Reality
Nothing
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Possibilities
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