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One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

Thomas Mann

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
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?
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Infinite Life Sea Thinking 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
Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.
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Artist Feeling High Joy Thinking
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
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
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
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
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
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
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth

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