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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Thomas Mann

What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
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
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
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present 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
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
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
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
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Achievement Beautiful Face Fate Positive Win
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
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
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
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
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Best Lust Mathematics Occupation Remedy Study
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
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Fear Interest Ourselves Sight View
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
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
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Funny Music Passion Serious Vulgar
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
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
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
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
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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