Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
THOMAS MANNBut 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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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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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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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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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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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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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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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.
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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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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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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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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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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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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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