Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impr…

Robert Musil
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Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression. ✨ Robert Musil (2012). Posthumous Papers of a Living Author, p.51, Archipelago
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A man can't be angry at his own time without suffering some damage. ✨ Robert Musil (2015). The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic, p.61, Pan Macmillan
The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.
True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end. ✨ Robert Musil (2015). The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic, p.891, Pan Macm … ▶
One does what one is; one becomes what one does.
The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my atten … ▶

Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression. ✨ Robert Musil (2012). Posthumous Papers of a Living Author, p.51, Archipelago

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