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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!

Thomas Mann

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
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
Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.
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Artist Feeling High Joy Thinking
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
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
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
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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Feeling Man Mental Talk
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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Compromises Goodness Moral Opportunity Politics
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
Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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Death Greatness Love Magic

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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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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