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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

Thomas Mann

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
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
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
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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Death Goodness Himself Love Thinking
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
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Conscious Life Himself Live Man Personal
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
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
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
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Clever Health Ideas Man Perfection Refine Unusual
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
This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected–in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
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Expectation Feeling Joy Life Love Possession Sight Understand Unknown

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

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