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We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.

Thomas Mann

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
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
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
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 man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
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Conscious Life Himself Live Man Personal
He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
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Funny Music Passion Serious Vulgar
Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?
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Infinite Life Sea Thinking Time
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
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Fear Interest Ourselves Sight View
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
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
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Foundation Humanity Important Theory Wisdom
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
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

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