Famous quotes containing the word musil:
“But how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell!”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)
“The probability of learning something unusual from a newspaper is far greater than that of experiencing it; in other words, it is in the realm of the abstract that the more important things happen in these times, and it is the unimportant that happens in real life.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)
“... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)