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

Thomas Mann

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
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
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
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
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
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Beautiful Born Original Pervert Poetry
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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History Ideas Intellect Life Poison
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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Astonish Beautiful Original Poetry Solitude Weird
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?
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Infinite Life Sea Thinking Time
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth

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