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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
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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Love Ourselves Person Quality Reason Time
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
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
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 harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
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
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
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
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
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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End Myself Need Sleep
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion

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