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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Thomas Mann

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
I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.
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Deprive Himself Man Safety Smoke Touch Understand
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
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
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
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 sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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Death Goodness Himself Love Thinking
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
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
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
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

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