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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.

Thomas Mann

I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me…I don’t know which makes me feel worse.
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Arrest Feeling Home Stand Suffering World Worst
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
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Demand Live Passion Problem Public Youth
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
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
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
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
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
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
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Funny Music Passion Serious Vulgar
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
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Conscious Flow Foundation Life Reproduction Time

A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.

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