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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

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
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
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
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
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
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
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
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Funny Music Passion Serious Vulgar
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
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
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
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
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
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Conscious Life Himself Live Man Personal
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

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

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