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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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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Arrest Feeling Home Stand Suffering World Worst
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
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
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Acceptance Artist Injustice Nature Privilege
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
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
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
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Feeling Man Mental Talk
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
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
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
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
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology

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