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Everything is politics.

Thomas Mann

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
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Care Creature Eyes Human Phenomenon Structure Wonderful
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
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
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
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
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
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
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.
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Deprive Himself Man Safety Smoke Touch Understand
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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End Myself Need Sleep
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
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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Astonish Beautiful Original Poetry Solitude Weird

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