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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

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
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
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
Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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Death Greatness Love Magic
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
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
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 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
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
We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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Love Ourselves Person Quality Reason Time
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
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Fear Interest Ourselves Sight View
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
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Acceptance Artist Injustice Nature Privilege
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
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
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
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
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
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
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
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
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
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering

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

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