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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Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together.Robert Musil
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
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Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.
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Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.
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If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.
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