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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

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
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
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
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
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
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
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
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
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 great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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Death Goodness Himself Love Thinking
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
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
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

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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