Modernism Quote by Robert Musil

“Yet he had expended much of an inquisitive nature upon random reading. By the sheer force of indiscriminate voracity, he had gleaned a smattering…

— Isaac Asimov

“Something new and unexpected, something hitherto unknown and undreamt of, had taken place in him. He did not so much understand with his mind…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“His mind was a turmoil of words and fancies, incomplete fancies and insufficient words, but already he knew that this and only this was…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“people had true knowledge of the world perhaps they would not take up arms and so perhaps he could be an aggregator of information…

— Paulette Jiles

“he had expressed the belief that everything in life had a pattern and that a coincidence was simply the moment when that pattern became…

— Anthony Horowitz

“Great events, but it all seemed of small importance compared to what happened now, in this room. Who knew? The course of his life…

— Joe Abercrombie

“These occasions always took him by surprise. He was shocked anew each time the crisply surveyed, neatly kept world he so cherished rose up…

— T.C. Boyle

“Components of his experiences seemed to break down, sorting into hard facts, like a series of crystals, as if they could be arranged, made…

— Brent Hayward

“They were mere permutations of known quantities. There was no roundness or fullness in this world he now inhabited, everything was a dead shape…

— D. H. Lawrence

“He had no more imaginary space, nowhere he could escape to, no more expectations, all he could do was make himself available to the…

— Laurence Cossé

“There are few things, - whether in the outward world, or to a certain depth, in the invisible sphere of thought, - few things…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It pained him that he did not know well what politics meant and that he did not know where the universe ended. He felt…

— James Joyce