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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.

Thomas Mann

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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Best Lust Mathematics Occupation Remedy Study
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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Conscious Life Himself Live Man Personal
There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one’s own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
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Goodness Hesitate Misfortune Opinion Reality Yourself
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
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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Act Adversity Fatal Grace Poised Positive
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
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
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
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.
THOMAS MANN

Foundation Humanity Important Theory Wisdom

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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