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I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.

Thomas Mann

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me…I don’t know which makes me feel worse.
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Arrest Feeling Home Stand Suffering World Worst
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
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
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
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
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
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
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
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
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
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
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

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.

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