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People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

Thomas Mann

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
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
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Achievement Beautiful Face Fate Positive Win
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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Death Goodness Himself Love Thinking
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
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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Care Creature Eyes Human Phenomenon Structure Wonderful
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
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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Arrest Feeling Home Stand Suffering World Worst
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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End Myself Need Sleep
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
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War

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