Robert Musil Quotes

For The Inhabitant Of A Country Has At Least Nine Characters: A Professional, A National, A Civic, A Class, A Geographic, A Sexual, A Conscious, An Unconscious, And Possibly Even A Private Character To Boot. He Unites Them In Himself, But They Dissolve Him, So That He Is Really Nothing More Than A Small Basin Hollowed Out By These Many Streamlets That Trickle Into It And Drain Out Of It Again, To Join Other Such Rills In Filling Some Other Basin. Which Is Why Every Inhabitant Of The Earth Also Has A Tenth Character That Is Nothing Else Than The Passive Fantasy Of Spaces Yet Unfilled [ ... ] Prevent[ing] Precisely What Should Be His True Fulfillment.

Robert Musil Quotes: For The Inhabitant Of A Country Has At Least Nine Characters: A Professional, A National, A Civic, A Class, A

Robert Musil Quotes: For The Inhabitant Of A Country Has At Least Nine Characters: A Professional, A National, A Civic, A Class, A

Robert Musil Quotes: For The Inhabitant Of A Country Has At Least Nine Characters: A Professional, A National, A Civic, A Class, A

Robert Musil Quotes: For The Inhabitant Of A Country Has At Least Nine Characters: A Professional, A National, A Civic, A Class, A

Robert Musil Quotes: For The Inhabitant Of A Country Has At Least Nine Characters: A Professional, A National, A Civic, A Class, A

Robert Musil Quotes: For The Inhabitant Of A Country Has At Least Nine Characters: A Professional, A National, A Civic, A Class, A

Robert Musil Quotes: For The Inhabitant Of A Country Has At Least Nine Characters: A Professional, A National, A Civic, A Class, A

Robert Musil Quotes: For The Inhabitant Of A Country Has At Least Nine Characters: A Professional, A National, A Civic, A Class, A

Robert Musil Quotes: For The Inhabitant Of A Country Has At Least Nine Characters: A Professional, A National, A Civic, A Class, A

Robert Musil Quotes: For The Inhabitant Of A Country Has At Least Nine Characters: A Professional, A National, A Civic, A Class, A

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