It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them. β¨ Robert Musil (2015). The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic, p.18, Pan Macmillan
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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 that help you to come out with it? Come on now! β¨ Robert Musil, Eithne Wilkins, E β¦ βΆ
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