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Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?

Thomas Mann

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
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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Author Book Enough Genius Greatness Happiness Strange
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 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
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
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
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
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
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
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social

Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?

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