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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

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
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
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 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
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
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
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
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
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
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Foundation Humanity Important Theory Wisdom
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
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Best Lust Mathematics Occupation Remedy Study
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.
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Deprive Himself Man Safety Smoke Touch Understand
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
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
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

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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