Musil

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    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)

    It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!
    —Robert Musil (1880–1942)

    Wordsworth’s particular grace, his charisma, as theologians say, has been granted in equal measure to so very few men since time was—to Plato and who else?
    The crucial thing is never what we do, but always what we do right after that. What matters is always the next step!
    —Robert Musil (1880–1942)