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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

Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.
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Artist Feeling High Joy Thinking
But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.
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Belong Bright Charm Children Deep Love Myself Ordinary Secret
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
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
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
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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Clever Kind Smart Stupidity Worst
This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected–in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
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Expectation Feeling Joy Life Love Possession Sight Understand Unknown
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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Change Magic Thinking Vehicle Word
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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End Myself Need Sleep
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
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Feeling Man Mental Talk
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
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
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
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
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
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
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit

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