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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.

Thomas Mann

Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
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Fear Interest Ourselves Sight View
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.
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Expedition Music People Thinking World
People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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Goal Motive Need People Yourself
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
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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Change Magic Thinking Vehicle Word
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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Clever Kind Smart Stupidity Worst
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
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth

What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.

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