In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
THOMAS MANNOften 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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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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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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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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We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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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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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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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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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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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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