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

Thomas Mann

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
What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
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Demand Live Passion Problem Public Youth
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
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
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
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
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
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
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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Artist Feeling High Joy Thinking
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
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
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
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Best Lust Mathematics Occupation Remedy Study
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
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

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

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