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“We don’t have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little intellect in matters of the soul.”

Soul Intellect Musil

Author:Robert Musil

“…. by the time they have reached the middle of their life’s journey, few people remember how they have managed to arrive at themselves, at their amusements, their point of view, their wife, character, occupation and successes, but they cannot help feeling that not much is likely to change anymore. It might even be asserted that they have been cheated, for one can nowhere discover any sufficient reason for everything’s coming about as it has. It might just have well as turned out differently. The events of people’s lives have, after all, only to the last degree originated in them, having generally depended on all sorts of circumstances such as the moods, the life or death of quite different people, and have, as it were, only at the given point of time come hurrying towards them”

Book:The Man Without Qualities: Volume I

Source: The Man Without Qualities: Volume I

“Chaque vérité éternelle existe en double, en multiples exemplaires.”

Vérité Musil L Homme Sans Qualités

Book:the Man Without Qualities

Source: the Man Without Qualities