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

Thomas Mann

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
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
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
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
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
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
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
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
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one’s own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
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Goodness Hesitate Misfortune Opinion Reality Yourself
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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Change Magic Thinking Vehicle Word

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