One does what one is; one becomes what one does. - Robert Musil
Sie litten alle unter der Angst, keine Zeit für alles zu haben, und wussten nicht, dass Zeit haben nichts anderes heißt, als keine Zeit für alles zu haben. - Robert Musil
One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic. - Robert Musil
Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains. - Robert Musil
Such elderly people were in the habit of saying that he simply had no will-power; but it might just as well have been said that he had all his life long only been a many-sided dilettante. - Robert Musil