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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
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
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
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Feeling Man Mental Talk
People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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Goal Motive Need People Yourself
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
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
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
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
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
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing

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

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