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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

Thomas Mann

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
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
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
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Course Happiness Life Name Oneself
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
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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Arrest Feeling Home Stand Suffering World Worst
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
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
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
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
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
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Acceptance Artist Injustice Nature Privilege

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