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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

Thomas Mann

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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Goal Motive Need People Yourself
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
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
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
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
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
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 myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
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Conscious Flow Foundation Life Reproduction Time
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine

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