People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
From Thomas Mann
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.
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