It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, th…

Robert Musil
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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. ✨ Robert Musil (2015). The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic, p.18, Pan Macmillan
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