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Form Quotes by Robert Musil
- Clothes, when abstracted from the flow of present time and their transmogrifying function on the human body, and seen as forms in themselves, are strange…
- I am not only convinced that what I say is false, but also that what one might say against it is false. Despite this, one…
- What is perceptible to one’s mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the ever-recurring sameness of…
- Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.
- and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand of rationalism,…
- Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a…
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