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

Thomas Mann

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
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
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 writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
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Care Creature Eyes Human Phenomenon Structure Wonderful
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
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
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.
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Deprive Himself Man Safety Smoke Touch Understand
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
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
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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Course Happiness Life Name Oneself
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong

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