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But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.

Thomas Mann

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
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
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Beautiful Born Original Pervert Poetry
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.
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Goodness Hesitate Misfortune Opinion Reality Yourself
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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History Ideas Intellect Life Poison
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
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
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
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
THOMAS MANN

End Myself Need Sleep

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.

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