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What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

Thomas Mann

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
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
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
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
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
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
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
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
For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
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Conscious Flow Foundation Life Reproduction Time
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social

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