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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

Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
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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Funny Music Passion Serious Vulgar
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
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
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
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
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
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
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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History Ideas Intellect Life Poison
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
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
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

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

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