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

Thomas Mann

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
THOMAS MANN

End Myself Need Sleep
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
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Course Happiness Life Name Oneself
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
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
THOMAS MANN

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

Compromises Goodness Moral Opportunity Politics
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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Achievement Beautiful Face Fate Positive Win
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
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
THOMAS MANN

Average Honor Word
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
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
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
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.
THOMAS MANN

Acceptance Artist Injustice Nature Privilege
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
THOMAS MANN

Author Book Enough Genius Greatness Happiness Strange

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