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

Thomas Mann

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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Expression Ideas Possession Smell Yourself
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
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Best Lust Mathematics Occupation Remedy Study
Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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Death Greatness Love Magic
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
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 a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
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Care Creature Eyes Human Phenomenon Structure Wonderful
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
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
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
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Author Book Enough Genius Greatness Happiness Strange
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
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 harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
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

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