Robert Musil, The Confusions of Young Törless

"We sometimes have a flash of understanding that amounts to the insight of genius, and yet it slowly withers, even in our hands - like a flower. The form remains, but the colours and the fragrance are gone."

Robert Musil, The Confusions of Young Törless

"His life was focused on each single day. For him each night meant a void, a grave, extinction. The capacity to lay oneself down to die at the end of every day, without thinking anything of it, was something he had not yet acquired."

Robert Musil, The Confusions of Young Törless