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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

Thomas Mann

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
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Author Book Enough Genius Greatness Happiness Strange
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
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
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
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
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
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
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
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
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
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
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Acceptance Artist Injustice Nature Privilege

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

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