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

Thomas Mann

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
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
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
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
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
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
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
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
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
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
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 must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion

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