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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 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
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
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
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
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
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
He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.
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Expedition Music People Thinking World
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 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
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
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
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
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

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