He who is allowed to do as he ...

He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration.
He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration.
 Robert Musil

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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But how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell!
 Robert Musil
Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.
 Robert Musil
And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality.
 Robert Musil
Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more abstract it gets, the more transparent the air is. Can it be that the farther it is removed from life, the clearer art becomes?
 Robert Musil
Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary.
 Robert Musil