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In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

Thomas Mann

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
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
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
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
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
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
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
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
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
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
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
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
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

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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