Author of quotes: Robert Musil. Page 4

She had only one drawback - that from the mere sight of a man, she was aroused to a completely extraordinary degree. She was not voluptuous at all; she was sensual, like other people suffer from something else, such as sweating hands or easily changing their beliefs.

The question arises: is it really so wrong in the world that it needs to be turned over every now and then? But the world itself gave two answers. After all, since it existed, most people in their youth were in favor of turning over. They found it ridiculous that the elders are attached to the existing. However, having come to the age of accomplishments, they no longer remembered about it, and they did not want to remember.

A person has not yet appeared in the world who could say to those who believe in him: steal, kill, debauchery, our teaching is so strong that it will turn the slurry of your sins into a white foam mountain stream.

There were people who predicted the death of European culture due to the fact that a person no longer has faith, love, simplicity, and kindness.

Maybe not all people believe in the story of the devil to whom you can sell your soul; but all people who, probably, understand something in their souls, since they, being priests, historians and artists, derive good income from this, testify that it has been destroyed by mathematics and that mathematics is the source of some kind of evil mind, although it transforms a person in the ruler of the earth, but making him a slave to the machine.

You cannot be hungry and absent-minded if you want to achieve something, but you have to eat a steak and stir.

Light, warmth, strength, pleasure, comfort are the eternal dreams of mankind.

At the tables of the cafe, Leona performed duties, but the subject of her dreams was a gentleman, a connection with whom for the duration of the engagement would save her from this and allow her to sit in a fashionable pose over a fashionable food card in a fashionable restaurant.

Prostitution is such a thing that you see very differently depending on whether you look at it from above or from below.

On Leon's case, she was engaged in prostitution. But if, for nine years, as she is from the sixteenth year of her life, you know the scarcity of daily wages on the tavern stage, keep in mind the prices of toilets and linen, deductions, the stinginess and arbitrariness of the owners, the percentage of the eaten and drunk of the entertained guests and from the bill for a room in the neighboring histinitsa, if you have to deal with this every day, quarrel about it and have a commercial acumen, then what the layman admires as rampant becomes a profession full of logic, expediency and class laws.

A person needs to be constrained in his capabilities, plans and feelings by all sorts of prejudices, traditions, difficulties and limitations, like a madman in a straitjacket

In his essay on love for the fatherland, Ulrich wrote that a serious friend of the fatherland never has the right to consider his fatherland the best. There was a commotion and he was almost expelled from school.

An impractical person is always unreliable, and in relationships with people one can expect all sorts of surprises from him. And besides, today it is still very far from being consistent. It is quite possible, for example, that a crime harming another will seem to him to be just a social miscalculation, the culprit of which is not the criminal, but the structure of society. It is unlikely, however, that the slap in the face that he will receive will seem to him a shame of society.

The sense of opportunity can be defined as the ability to think about everything that could very well be, and not attach more importance to what is than what is not. Such people of opportunity hover in the clouds, in the clouds of fantasy, dreams and subjunctive moods. In children with this craving, it is persistently eradicated.