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

Thomas Mann

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
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
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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Astonish Beautiful Original Poetry Solitude Weird
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
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
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?
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Infinite Life Sea Thinking Time
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
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
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
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
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
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
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
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Clever Health Ideas Man Perfection Refine Unusual
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking

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

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