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Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.

Thomas Mann

Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
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
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
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
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.
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Expedition Music People Thinking World
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
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
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
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
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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History Ideas Intellect Life Poison
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
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Conscious Flow Foundation Life Reproduction Time
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
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

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