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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
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
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
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Beautiful Born Original Pervert Poetry
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
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
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
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
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
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Fear Interest Ourselves Sight View
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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Love Ourselves Person Quality Reason Time

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

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