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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
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
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
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
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Achievement Beautiful Face Fate Positive Win
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
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Demand Live Passion Problem Public Youth
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 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
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
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
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
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

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

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