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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

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
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
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
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
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
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
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
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
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Author Book Enough Genius Greatness Happiness Strange
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
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
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
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth

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.

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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.

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