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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
Tags: new, go, value, man

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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
Tags: violence, army, world, people
Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?
— Robert Musil
Tags: know, you, art, life
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.
— Robert Musil
Tags: picture, painting, world, good
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.
— Robert Musil
Tags: difference, who, only, person
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.
— Robert Musil
Tags: together, world, people, time
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