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Thomas Mann

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
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
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
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
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
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
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Act Adversity Fatal Grace Poised Positive
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
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
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
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
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
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
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

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