Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
THOMAS MANN
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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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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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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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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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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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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Speech is civilization itself.
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Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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