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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.

Thomas Mann

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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Love Ourselves Person Quality Reason Time
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
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
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 man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
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
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
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

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