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.
If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.
It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.
And since the possession of qualities presupposes that one takes a certain pleasure in their reality, all this gives us a glimpse of how it may all of a sudden happen to someone who cannot summon up any sense of reality — even in relation to himself — that one day he appears to himself as a man without qualities.
We have gained reality and lost dream. No more lounging under a tree and peering at the sky between one's big and second toes; there's work to be done. To be efficient, one cannot be hungry and dreamy but must eat steak and keep moving.
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