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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.

Thomas Mann

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
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
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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Foundation Humanity Important Theory Wisdom
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
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
THOMAS MANN

Culture People Talk Technology
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
THOMAS MANN

History Ideas Intellect Life Poison
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.
THOMAS MANN

Beautiful Born Original Pervert Poetry
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

Belong Bright Charm Children Deep Love Myself Ordinary Secret

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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