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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.

Thomas Mann

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.
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Act Adversity Fatal Grace Poised Positive
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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Goal Motive Need People Yourself
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
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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Clever Kind Smart Stupidity Worst
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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End Myself Need Sleep
Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.
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Artist Feeling High Joy Thinking
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
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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Expression Ideas Possession Smell Yourself
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.
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Expedition Music People Thinking World

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