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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

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
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
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
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
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
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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Care Creature Eyes Human Phenomenon Structure Wonderful
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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End Myself Need Sleep
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
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
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
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
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
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

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

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