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In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

Thomas Mann

What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
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
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
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
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
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
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
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
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Best Lust Mathematics Occupation Remedy Study
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
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
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth

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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