War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me…I don’t know which makes me feel worse.
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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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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A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one’s own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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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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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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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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What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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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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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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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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I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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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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