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We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

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.
THOMAS MANN

Best Lust Mathematics Occupation Remedy Study
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
THOMAS MANN

Age Creation Demand Terror
Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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Death Greatness Love Magic
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
THOMAS MANN

Coward Escape Peace Problem War
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
THOMAS MANN

Creation Death Life Oneself
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
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.
THOMAS MANN

Goodness Hesitate Misfortune Opinion Reality Yourself
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
THOMAS MANN

Himself Inferior Love Suffering
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
THOMAS MANN

Order Simplify Subject
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
THOMAS MANN

Laughter Soul Sunshine
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
THOMAS MANN

Death Goodness Himself Love Thinking
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
THOMAS MANN

Goal Present Thinking
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.
THOMAS MANN

Act Adversity Fatal Grace Poised Positive
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?
THOMAS MANN

Infinite Life Sea Thinking Time
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
THOMAS MANN

Affair Death Himself Man Survive

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