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I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.

Thomas Mann

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
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
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
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
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
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
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Beautiful Born Original Pervert Poetry
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.
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Deprive Himself Man Safety Smoke Touch Understand
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
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
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
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
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.
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Belong Bright Charm Children Deep Love Myself Ordinary Secret

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.

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