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

Thomas Mann

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
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Conscious Flow Foundation Life Reproduction Time
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
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
THOMAS MANN

Age Creation Demand Terror
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
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
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
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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Astonish Beautiful Original Poetry Solitude Weird
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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Death Goodness Himself Love Thinking
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
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
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
THOMAS MANN

Faith Love Reason Strong

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