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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

Thomas Mann

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
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
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
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
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
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
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
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
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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Astonish Beautiful Original Poetry Solitude Weird
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
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

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