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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
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
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
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
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
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
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
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
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
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
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
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

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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