If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
THOMAS MANNSolitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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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.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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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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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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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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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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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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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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