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We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.

Thomas Mann

What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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Compromises Goodness Moral Opportunity Politics
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
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
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
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
What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
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Care Creature Eyes Human Phenomenon Structure Wonderful
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
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
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
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
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
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics

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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