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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

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
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
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
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
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
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
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
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
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
This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected–in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
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Expectation Feeling Joy Life Love Possession Sight Understand Unknown
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
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Author Book Enough Genius Greatness Happiness Strange
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social

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