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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

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
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
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
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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Death Goodness Himself Love Thinking
He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
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Funny Music Passion Serious Vulgar
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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Love Ourselves Person Quality Reason Time
What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
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Demand Live Passion Problem Public Youth
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
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Fear Interest Ourselves Sight View
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
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Foundation Humanity Important Theory Wisdom
What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
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Care Creature Eyes Human Phenomenon Structure Wonderful
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering

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