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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

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
I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me…I don’t know which makes me feel worse.
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Arrest Feeling Home Stand Suffering World Worst
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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End Myself Need Sleep
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
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
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
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
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
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
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.
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Deprive Himself Man Safety Smoke Touch Understand
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

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