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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

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
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
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
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Demand Live Passion Problem Public Youth
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
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
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
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
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
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
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive

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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