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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.

Thomas Mann

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
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
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
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
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
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
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
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
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
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
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
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
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
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

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