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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!

Thomas Mann

A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one’s own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
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Goodness Hesitate Misfortune Opinion Reality Yourself
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
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
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 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
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
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
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
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
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror

Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!

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