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

Thomas Mann

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 great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
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
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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Astonish Beautiful Original Poetry Solitude Weird
What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
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Care Creature Eyes Human Phenomenon Structure Wonderful
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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Death Goodness Himself Love Thinking
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
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
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
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

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