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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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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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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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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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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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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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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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!

THOMAS MANN

Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

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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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What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.

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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.

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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
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.

THOMAS MANN

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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