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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.

Thomas Mann

Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
THOMAS MANN

Deep Distance Mystery Shape
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
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Clever Health Ideas Man Perfection Refine Unusual
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
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Author Book Enough Genius Greatness Happiness Strange
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
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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End Myself Need Sleep
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
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
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
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.
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Artist Feeling High Joy Thinking
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering

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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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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