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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

Thomas Mann

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
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Achievement Beautiful Face Fate Positive Win
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
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Clever Health Ideas Man Perfection Refine Unusual
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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Death Goodness Himself Love Thinking
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected–in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
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Expectation Feeling Joy Life Love Possession Sight Understand Unknown
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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Astonish Beautiful Original Poetry Solitude Weird
What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
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Care Creature Eyes Human Phenomenon Structure Wonderful
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
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
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong

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