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A man can't be angry at his own time without suffering some damage.

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Robert Musil
Age: 61 †
Born: 1880
Born: November 6
Died: 1942
Died: April 15
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Life is to blame for everything.
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Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.
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True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.
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... all professional ideologies are high-minded. Hunters, for instance, would not dream of calling themselves the butchers of the woods.
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And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality.
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Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.
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To love something as an artist ... means to be shaken not by its ultimate value or lack of value, but by a side of it that suddenly opens up. Where art has value it shows things that few have seen. It's conquering, not pacifying.
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Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine.
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It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only laboriously patch together piecemeal, and never to such kaleidoscopic effect.
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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 mentall illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.
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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.
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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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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 and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.
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Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.
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