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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

Thomas Mann

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
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
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
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
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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Death Goodness Himself Love Thinking
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
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
We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
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Fear Interest Ourselves Sight View
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
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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Demand Live Passion Problem Public Youth
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
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

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