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

Thomas Mann

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
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
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
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
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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Conscious Flow Foundation Life Reproduction Time
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 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
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
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
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
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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Best Lust Mathematics Occupation Remedy Study
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
Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.
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Artist Feeling High Joy Thinking

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