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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?

Thomas Mann

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
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
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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Expression Ideas Possession Smell Yourself
I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me…I don’t know which makes me feel worse.
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Arrest Feeling Home Stand Suffering World Worst
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
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
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Author Book Enough Genius Greatness Happiness Strange
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong

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