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

Thomas Mann

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
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
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
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
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
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
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
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason 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
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
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject

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