For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
THOMAS MANN
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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For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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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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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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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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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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