Layer by layer art strips life bare.

—Robert Musil

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About Robert Musil

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Robert Mathias Musil (; Austrian German: [ˈroːbɛrt ˈmuːzɪl]; 6 November 1880 – 15 April 1942) was an Austrian philosophical writer of novels, short stories and plays. His unfinished novel, The Man Without Qualities (German: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften), is generally considered to be one of the most important and influential...

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Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?

—Robert Musil

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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

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He talked with more claret than clarity.

My father… used to say, "I need my anger. It obliges me to take action." I think my father was partly right. Anger arises, naturally, to signal disturbing situations that might require action. But actions initiated in anger perpetuate suffering. The most effective actions are those conceived in the wisdom of clarity.

—Sylvia Boorstein

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Love is not blind—it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

—Rabbi Julius Gordon

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When, at some point in our lives, we meet a real tragedy—which could happen to any one of us—we can react in two ways. Obviously, we can lose hope, let ourselves slip into discouragement, into alcohol, drugs, and unending sadness. Or else we can wake ourselves up, discover in ourselves an energy that was hidden there, and act with more clarity, more force.

—14th Dalai Lama

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17 Nov 2014 Added