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

Thomas Mann

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
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
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 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
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
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
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
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Conscious Life Himself Live Man Personal
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
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
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
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War

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