Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
THOMAS MANNHe thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.
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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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Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
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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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Everything is politics.
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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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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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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Speech is civilization itself.
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