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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

Thomas Mann

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
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
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
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
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
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.
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Beautiful Born Original Pervert Poetry
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
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
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
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Clever Health Ideas Man Perfection Refine Unusual
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?
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Infinite Life Sea Thinking Time

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