If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.
From Robert Musil
Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.
On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room.
Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.
What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.
The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.
It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!
Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.
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