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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.

Thomas Mann

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
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
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
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Beautiful Born Original Pervert Poetry
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
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
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
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
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
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
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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Expression Ideas Possession Smell Yourself
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
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me…I don’t know which makes me feel worse.
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Arrest Feeling Home Stand Suffering World Worst
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
THOMAS MANN

Goal Motive Need People Yourself

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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