Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only…

Robert Musil
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Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement.
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Layer by layer art strips life bare. ✨ Robert Musil (2012). Posthumous Papers of a Living Author, p.44, Archipelago
You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you take it for granted that nobody's been living for them, not even for a single hour.
There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses [....] The truth by comparison, has only one appearance and only one path, and is always at a disadvantage. ✨ Robert Mus … ▶
A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between?
That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a non-threatening system for deciding between diverse interests, then voting, of … ▶

Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement.

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