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

Thomas Mann

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
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
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
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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Funny Music Passion Serious Vulgar
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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Infinite Life Sea Thinking Time
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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Goal Motive Need People Yourself
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.
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Beautiful Born Original Pervert Poetry
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
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Act Adversity Fatal Grace Poised Positive
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
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself

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