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Thomas Mann

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.
THOMAS MANN

Beautiful Born Original Pervert Poetry
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
THOMAS MANN

Age Creation Demand Terror
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.
THOMAS MANN

Demand Live Passion Problem Public Youth
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 who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me…I don’t know which makes me feel worse.
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Arrest Feeling Home Stand Suffering World Worst
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
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
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
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
THOMAS MANN

Death Expression Interest Life

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