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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Thomas Mann

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
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
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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Love Ourselves Person Quality Reason Time
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
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
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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Astonish Beautiful Original Poetry Solitude Weird
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.
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Belong Bright Charm Children Deep Love Myself Ordinary Secret
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
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected–in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
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Expectation Feeling Joy Life Love Possession Sight Understand Unknown
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War

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