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Austrian Writer November 6, 1880 – April 15, 1942

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All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man! Robert Musil
Legally, Moosbrugger's case could be summed up in-a sentence. Hewas one of those borderline cases in law and forensic medicineknown even to the layman as a case of diminished responsibility. These unfortunates typically suffer not only substandard healthbut also have a substandard disease, Nature has a peculiar prefer-ence for producing such people in droves. Natura non fecit saltus, she makes no jumps but prefers gradual transitions; even on thegrand scale she keeps the world in a... Robert Musil
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
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
The world seems almost physically wider when up to just now theright-hand side was always obscured by the proximity of someone else; and all of a sudden you stand there, astonished, in a widesemi-circle: alone. Robert Musil
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
On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room. Robert Musil
Robert Musil quote: "And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a..."
And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality. Robert Musil

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