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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Thomas Mann

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
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
Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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Clever Kind Smart Stupidity Worst
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
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
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
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
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.
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Belong Bright Charm Children Deep Love Myself Ordinary Secret
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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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
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
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
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

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