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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.

Thomas Mann

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
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
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Foundation Humanity Important Theory Wisdom
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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Love Ourselves Person Quality Reason Time
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
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
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
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
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
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Best Lust Mathematics Occupation Remedy Study
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance

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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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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