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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

Thomas Mann

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
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
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
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Feeling Man Mental Talk
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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Change Magic Thinking Vehicle Word
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
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.
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Beautiful Born Original Pervert Poetry
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
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
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Course Happiness Life Name Oneself
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
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
For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
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Conscious Flow Foundation Life Reproduction Time

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