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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

Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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Clever Kind Smart Stupidity Worst
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
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
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
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Author Book Enough Genius Greatness Happiness Strange
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
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
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
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
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
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
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Clever Health Ideas Man Perfection Refine Unusual
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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History Ideas Intellect Life Poison

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

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