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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.

Thomas Mann

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
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Beautiful Born Original Pervert Poetry
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
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
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
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
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
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
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
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
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
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
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
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
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

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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