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Speech is civilization itself.

Thomas Mann

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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Expression Ideas Possession Smell Yourself
What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
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Demand Live Passion Problem Public Youth
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
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
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
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
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Fear Interest Ourselves Sight View
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
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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Change Magic Thinking Vehicle Word
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit

Speech is civilization itself.

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