A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.
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Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.
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Robert Musil (20)
Birth: | 6th November, 1880 |
Death: | 15th April, 1992 |
Nationality: | Austrian |
Profession: | Writer |
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Robert Musil was an Austrian writer. His unfinished long novel The Man Without Qualities is generally considered to be one of the most important modernist novels. However, this novel has not been widely read because of its delayed publication and also because of the lengthy and intricate plot.
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