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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Thomas Mann

Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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Death Greatness Love Magic
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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Clever Kind Smart Stupidity Worst
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
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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Goodness Hesitate Misfortune Opinion Reality Yourself
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
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
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
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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Feeling Man Mental Talk

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