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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

Thomas Mann

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
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
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
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
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
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
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
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
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
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Author Book Enough Genius Greatness Happiness Strange
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
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
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
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life

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