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

—Robert Musil

About Robert Musil

Portrait of Robert Musil

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...

More quotations from Robert Musil

More quotations tagged with “struggle”