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What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

Thomas Mann

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
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Conscious Life Himself Live Man Personal
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
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
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
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
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
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?
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Infinite Life Sea Thinking Time
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
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
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

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