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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Thomas Mann

Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.
THOMAS MANN

Artist Feeling High Joy Thinking
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
THOMAS MANN

End Myself Need Sleep
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
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
THOMAS MANN

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
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
THOMAS MANN

Astonish Beautiful Original Poetry Solitude Weird
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
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
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
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
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 writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
THOMAS MANN

Difficult People Writing
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
THOMAS MANN

Coward Escape Peace Problem War
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
THOMAS MANN

Affair Death Himself Man Survive

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