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A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

Thomas Mann

This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected–in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
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Expectation Feeling Joy Life Love Possession Sight Understand Unknown
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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Goal Motive Need People Yourself
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
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Conscious Life Himself Live Man Personal
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
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Feeling Man Mental Talk
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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History Ideas Intellect Life Poison
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
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Act Adversity Fatal Grace Poised Positive
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.
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Artist Feeling High Joy Thinking
There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one’s own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
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Goodness Hesitate Misfortune Opinion Reality Yourself
Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
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Course Happiness Life Name Oneself
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
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Clever Health Ideas Man Perfection Refine Unusual

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

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