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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.

Thomas Mann

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
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
Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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Clever Kind Smart Stupidity Worst
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
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
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
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
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
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
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
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Clever Health Ideas Man Perfection Refine Unusual
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
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

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