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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.

Thomas Mann

I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
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
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
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
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
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
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
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
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
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
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing

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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