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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

Thomas Mann

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
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
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
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
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 who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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Death Greatness Love Magic
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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Clever Kind Smart Stupidity Worst
What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
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Demand Live Passion Problem Public Youth
Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
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Course Happiness Life Name Oneself
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
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
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Beautiful Born Original Pervert Poetry

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

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