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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.

Thomas Mann

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
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
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
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
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
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
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
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
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
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
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion

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