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[On Criticism] Robert Musil: Precision and Soul. Essays and Addresses, p. 43, ed. and trans. by Burton Pike and David S. Luft, Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1990)diary entry, 1918-1921 Tagebucher, ed. Adolf Frise, trans. by Donald C. Rieche, Rowohlt (1976)Diary entry, date uncertain: 1899?-1905/06 Tagebucher, 2 vols., ed. Adolf Frise, trans. by Donald C. Rieche, Rowohlt (1976)Die Wallfahrt nach Innen [The Pilgrimage into the Interior] p. 1447, ed. Adolf Frise, trans. by Donald C. Riechel, Rowohlt (1978)Helpless Europe. A Digressive Journey (1922) Robert Musil, Precision and Soul. Essays and Addresses, p. 127, ed. and trans. by Burton Pike and David S. Luft, Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1990)

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One could love reason like an Encyclopaedist and still be favorably inclined toward mysticism. Throughout the ages, up to the eyes of van Gogh, when he looked at a coffee pot or a garden path, mysticism has expanded the human realm by all sorts of threshold experiences.

Robert Musil

Robert Musil (1880–1942), Austrian author. Die Wallfahrt nach Innen [The Pilgrimage into the Interior], book review, published in Die Neue Rundschau [The New Review] (April 1913), p. 1447, ed. Adolf Frise, trans. by Donald C. Riechel, Rowohlt (1978).

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