"Layer by layer art strips life bare."

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Source : Robert Musil (2012). “Posthumous Papers of a Living Author”, p.44, Archipelago

Robert Musil

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“The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.”
“To think deeply in our culture is to grow angry and to anger others; and if you cannot tolerate this anger, you are wasting the time you spend thinking deeply. One of the rewards of deep thought is the hot glow of anger at discovering a wrong, but if anger is taboo, thought will starve to death.”
“Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.”
“People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort.”
“When it comes to the president, we have to respect him, we have to protect him, and we have to correct him. And in my career, since he'd been on the national stage at least, I've had - I've always respected the president.”
“I wouldn't say that my emotions are extreme. I'd say they are committed. My moods are the equivalent of Madonna's dancing: inappropriate but all-out. If I'm going to be sad, I might as well be the saddest a girl can get. And if I'm happy, I want to be the happiest. The trouble is, I feel highs so ecstatic that just being normal feels like a thousand-mile drop and being unhappy is excruciating.”

Source : Emma Forrest (2014). “Namedropper”, p.98, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I'm superstitious ... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.”
“Fenugreek, Tuesday's spice, when the air is green like mosses after rain.”

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