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Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.

Thomas Mann

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
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
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
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
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
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me…I don’t know which makes me feel worse.
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Arrest Feeling Home Stand Suffering World Worst
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present 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 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
There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one’s own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
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Goodness Hesitate Misfortune Opinion Reality Yourself
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
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine

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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