Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

Quote by Thomas Mann

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The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to...

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to...

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other...

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other...

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry....

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry....

What is uttered is finished and done with.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell...

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell...

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle...

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle...

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without...

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without...

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Everything is politics.

Everything is politics.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family...

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family...

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest...

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest...

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.