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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

Thomas Mann

Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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Clever Kind Smart Stupidity Worst
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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Expression Ideas Possession Smell Yourself
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
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
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
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
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
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
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War

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