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Robert Musil has 64 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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You see how wrong I go, how ridiculous I'm making myself in your eyes by keeping on guessing wrong like this! Doesn't…
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That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a…
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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…
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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…
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Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance stands between…
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If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.
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A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become…
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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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It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only laboriously patch…
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A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of…
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One does what one is; one becomes what one does.
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For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content…
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How is Christmas regarded today? The legend of Santa Claus, the Christmas tree, the decorations of tinsel and mistletoe, and the giving…
— Howard W. Hunter
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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…
— Robert Musil
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There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.'
— Raymond Loewy
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Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings!
— Dr. Seuss
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Current among men, Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Oh, heart, let's never grow too old To smile anew, when Christmas comes, At tassels red and tinsel thread, And tarlatan bags…
— Nancy Byrd Turner
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If you choose the liberty and pride and strength of the single soul, and the free fraternization of men, as the purpose…
— Voltairine de Cleyre
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Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
— Oscar Levant
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Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the…
— Ronald Reagan
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For instance," said the boy again, "if Christmas trees were people and people were Christmas trees, we'd all be chopped down, put…
— Norton Juster
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