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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Thomas Mann

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
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
For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
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Conscious Flow Foundation Life Reproduction Time
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
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
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
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
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
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Act Adversity Fatal Grace Poised Positive
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
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
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
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
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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End Myself Need Sleep

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

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