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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

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
For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
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Conscious Flow Foundation Life Reproduction Time
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
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
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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Death Goodness Himself Love Thinking
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
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
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
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
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
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
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion

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