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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.

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
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
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
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
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
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
Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
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Course Happiness Life Name 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
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
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War

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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