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Thomas Mann

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
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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Infinite Life Sea Thinking Time
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
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Best Lust Mathematics Occupation Remedy Study
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
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
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
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
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
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
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
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself

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