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The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined. ↗

— Robert Musil

#beautiful #beauty #becomes #being #came

It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them. ↗

— Robert Musil

#actuality #along #always #average #awakens

The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again. ↗

— Robert Musil

#attention #days #developed #disturbed #emotionally

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

#closer #drew #endless #glittering #like

What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture. ↗

— Robert Musil

#cast #existence #good #optical #our

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email. ↗

— Elon Musk

#email #good #i #i do #love

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world. ↗

— Elon Musk

#business people #engineers #people #silicon #silicon valley

In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well. ↗

— Edmund S. Muskie

#anger #become #campaigns #exaggeration #heat

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#feel #friends #guidance #i #i feel

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#bomb #dagger #hands #hearts #infinite