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" A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. "
Truth Is
Better
Lie
" A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own. "
Dying
More
Own
" Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. "
Horse
Animals
Companion
" A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. "
Writer
People
Difficult
" Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you. "
Possessions
You
Bourgeoisie
" Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist. "
Moderate
Reasonable
Human
" Everything is politics. "
Politics
Everything
" For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide. "
Company
Path
Tell
" For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed. "
Word
Beautiful
Begets
" For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. "
Love
Goodness
Man
" For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph. "
Triumph
Endurance
Positive
" He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer. "
Who
He
Inferior
" If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. "
Everywhere
You
Smell
" 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. "
Life
Mouth
Good
" It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. "
Society
Democracy
Equality
" It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. "
Reason
Love
Than
" One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. "
Man
Always
Clever
" Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. "
Steps
Order
Mastery
" People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives. "
Think
People
Goals
" Psycho-analyses, how disgusting. "
How
Disgusting
" 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. "
Birth
Solitude
Poetry
" The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life. "
Life
Think
Only
" There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect. "
Saying
Her
Music
" 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. "
Time
Fire
Month
" War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. "
Peace
Escape
Only
" What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. "
Life
Long
History
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