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Speech is civilization itself.

Thomas Mann

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
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
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
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
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
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
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Course Happiness Life Name Oneself
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
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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Clever Health Ideas Man Perfection Refine Unusual
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

Speech is civilization itself.

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