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

Thomas Mann

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
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
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
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
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
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
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
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
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
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
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
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
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
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

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

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