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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Thomas Mann

What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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Compromises Goodness Moral Opportunity Politics
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
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Course Happiness Life Name Oneself
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
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
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Foundation Humanity Important Theory Wisdom
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
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
He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
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Funny Music Passion Serious Vulgar
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
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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Goal Motive Need People Yourself
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
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance

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