Robert Musil. The man without qualities (№ 431339)

The path of history is not like the path of a billiard ball, which, having received a blow, rolls in a certain direction, but is similar to the path of clouds, to the path of a man wandering the streets, distracted by some shadow, now by a group of people, now by a strangely broken line of houses and eventually ending up in a place that he did not know at all and did not want to reach.