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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.

Thomas Mann

We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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Love Ourselves Person Quality Reason Time
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
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
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
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Conscious Life Himself Live Man Personal
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
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Beautiful Born Original Pervert Poetry
I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me…I don’t know which makes me feel worse.
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Arrest Feeling Home Stand Suffering World Worst
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
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
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
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
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
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine

Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.

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