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

Thomas Mann

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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Change Magic Thinking Vehicle Word
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
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
But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.
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Belong Bright Charm Children Deep Love Myself Ordinary Secret
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
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Acceptance Artist Injustice Nature Privilege
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
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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Death Goodness Himself Love Thinking
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
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
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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Expression Ideas Possession Smell Yourself
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
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

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