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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!

Thomas Mann

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
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
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
He 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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Expedition Music People Thinking World
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
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
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
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
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
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
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself

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