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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.

Thomas Mann

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
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
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
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
Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.
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Artist Feeling High Joy Thinking
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
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Demand Live Passion Problem Public Youth
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
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
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
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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Feeling Man Mental Talk
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
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Foundation Humanity Important Theory Wisdom

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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