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Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.

Thomas Mann

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
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
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
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Clever Health Ideas Man Perfection Refine Unusual
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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Love Ourselves Person Quality Reason Time
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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Conscious Life Himself Live Man Personal
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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Death Greatness Love Magic
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
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
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology

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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