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One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

Thomas Mann

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
THOMAS MANN

Clever Health Ideas Man Perfection Refine Unusual
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
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
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
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
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
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
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
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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Death Goodness Himself Love 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
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

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