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

Thomas Mann

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
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Act Adversity Fatal Grace Poised Positive
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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Astonish Beautiful Original Poetry Solitude Weird
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
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
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
I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.
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Deprive Himself Man Safety Smoke Touch Understand
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
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
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
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
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
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Beautiful Born Original Pervert Poetry

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

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