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The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.

Thomas Mann

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
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
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
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
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
There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one’s own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
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Goodness Hesitate Misfortune Opinion Reality Yourself
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
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
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
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
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

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