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Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?

Thomas Mann

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
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
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
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
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Conscious Life Himself Live Man Personal
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
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
This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected–in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
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Expectation Feeling Joy Life Love Possession Sight Understand Unknown
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
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
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
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
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking

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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