Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
THOMAS MANNWhat 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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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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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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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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I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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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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Everything is politics.
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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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One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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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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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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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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