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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

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.
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Belong Bright Charm Children Deep Love Myself Ordinary Secret
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
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
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
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Foundation Humanity Important Theory Wisdom
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
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
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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Expedition Music People Thinking World
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
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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Astonish Beautiful Original Poetry Solitude Weird
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
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

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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