Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
THOMAS MANNWhat our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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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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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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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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In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Everything is politics.
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
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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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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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