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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Thomas Mann

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
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
What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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Compromises Goodness Moral Opportunity Politics
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
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
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
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
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
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
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself

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