Austrian - Writer | November 6, 1880 - April 15, 1942
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
Robert Musil
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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.
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Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.
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Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.
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What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.
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Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.
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The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.
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All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!
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