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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Thomas Mann

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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Clever Kind Smart Stupidity Worst
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
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
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
People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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Goal Motive Need People Yourself
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
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
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
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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Death Greatness Love Magic

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