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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

Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
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Acceptance Artist Injustice Nature Privilege
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
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 who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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Goal Motive Need People Yourself
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
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
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
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
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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Expedition Music People Thinking World

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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