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Quotes from The Confusions of Young Törless — Robert Musil

1880–1942 Austria

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At home these men’s works [Kant, Schiller, Goethe] were kept in the bookcase with the green glass panes in Papa’s study, and Törless knew this bookcase was never opened except to display its contents to a visitor. It was like the shrine of some divinity to which one does not readily draw nigh and which one venerates only because one is glad that thanks to its existence there are certain things one need no longer bother about.

The Confusions of Young Törless (1906)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Musil (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.