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Offener Horizont

by Matthias Bormuth

bookshelves: currently-reading, autoren, essay, philosophie, sachbuch

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Das Münchener Abkommen von 1938 in europäischer Perspektive: Eine Gemeinschaftspublikation des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin und des Collegium Carolinum (German Edition)

by Jürgen Zarusky

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Thomas Mann: Werk und Zeit | Die erste umfassende Monographie zum Werk des Nobelpreisträgers (German Edition)

by Dieter Borchmeyer

bookshelves: currently-reading, autoren, biographie, sachbuch

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"Maßgeblich war hier nur die Ausführungen zum Zauberberg. Einstweilen wird das Buch zurückgestellt." — Jul 13, 2025 10:31AM

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Gerhard’s Quotes

“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

tags: honesty, integerity

1705 likes

“Albert expresses it: "The war has ruined us for everything.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet On The Western Front

3 likes

“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: honesty, independent-thought

1603 likes

“Es sagt viel über die Welt aus, mein Kind,
sagte der Vater zu dem Knaben,
dass die Dummen glücklich sind
und die Schlauen Depressionen haben.”
― Marc-Uwe Kling

65 likes

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

tags: family, first-sentence

8091 likes

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