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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

Thomas Mann

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
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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End Myself Need Sleep
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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Expression Ideas Possession Smell Yourself
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
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
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one’s own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
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Goodness Hesitate Misfortune Opinion Reality Yourself
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
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
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
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
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
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit

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