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Everything is politics.

Thomas Mann

Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?
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Infinite Life Sea Thinking Time
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
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
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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Clever Kind Smart Stupidity Worst
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
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Foundation Humanity Important Theory Wisdom
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
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
What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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Compromises Goodness Moral Opportunity Politics
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
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Achievement Beautiful Face Fate Positive Win
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion

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