Quotes by : Robert Musil

And after all, if stupidity did not, when seen from within, look so exactly like talent as to be mistaken....

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world....

A man going quietly about his business all day long expends far more muscular energy than an athlete....

The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than....

For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence....

For if one is partly insane, one is also, juridically, partly sane, and if one is partly sane one is....

We have gained reality and lost dream. No more lounging under a tree and peering at the sky between one's....

Such elderly people were in the habit of saying that he simply had no will-power but it might just as....

And so the mind or spirit is the great opportunist, itself impossible to pin down, take hold of, anywhere;....

His life was focused on each single day. For him each night meant a void, a grave, extinction. The capacity....