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Everything is politics.

Thomas Mann

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
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
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 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
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
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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Author Book Enough Genius Greatness Happiness Strange
He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
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Funny Music Passion Serious Vulgar
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
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
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
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Best Lust Mathematics Occupation Remedy Study
Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
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Course Happiness Life Name Oneself
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
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Act Adversity Fatal Grace Poised Positive

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