Robert Musil. The man without qualities (№ 126913)

Internal void, a monstrous mixture of insight in the particulars and indifference in General, the incredible loneliness of man in the desert of details, his anxiety, anger and unparalleled callousness, greed, coldness and cruelty, characteristic of our time, are, from this evidence, a consequence of the losses inflicted on the soul logically sharp thinking!