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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.

Thomas Mann

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
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Conscious Life Himself Live Man Personal
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
Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.
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Artist Feeling High Joy Thinking
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
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 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
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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History Ideas Intellect Life Poison
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
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

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