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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

Thomas Mann

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
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
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
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
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
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
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
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
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
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Acceptance Artist Injustice Nature Privilege
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing

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