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

Thomas Mann

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
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
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Achievement Beautiful Face Fate Positive Win
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
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
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
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
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
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
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
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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Expression Ideas Possession Smell Yourself

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