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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

Thomas Mann

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
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Fear Interest Ourselves Sight View
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
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
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
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
What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
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Care Creature Eyes Human Phenomenon Structure Wonderful
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.
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Artist Feeling High Joy Thinking
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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Compromises Goodness Moral Opportunity Politics
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
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
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

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

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