[b]Robert Musil
One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.[/b]
Not counting you of course.
…by the time they have reached the middle of their life’s journey, few people remember how they have managed to arrive at themselves, at their amusements, their point of view, their wife, character, occupation and successes, but they cannot help feeling that not much is likely to change anymore.
Let me guess: That can’t be true!
The difference between a normal person and an insane one is precisely that the normal person has all the diseases of the mind, while the madman has only one.
But it’s a beaut.
A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between?
Let’s think up something.
One does what one is; one becomes what one does.
You know, approximately.
‘True’ and ‘false’ are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.
In other words, if that’s true.