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“In her misery she read a great deal, and discovered that she had lost something she had previously not really know she had: a soul.
What’s that? It is easy to define negatively: it is simply that which sneaks off at the mention of algebraic series.”
― The Man Without Qualities
What’s that? It is easy to define negatively: it is simply that which sneaks off at the mention of algebraic series.”
― The Man Without Qualities
“What is inspired comes already arranged beforehand and there is very little to be done by the brain and by the mind.”
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“There is no end to one’s faults. To think of them makes one humble.”
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“Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. The function of the artist is the mythologization of the environment and the world.”
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“It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only laboriously patch together piecemeal, and never to such kaleidoscopic effect.”
― The Man Without Qualities
― The Man Without Qualities
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