All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
THOMAS MANNHe 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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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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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.
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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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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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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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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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