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Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.

Thomas Mann

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
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
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
We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
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Fear Interest Ourselves Sight View
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
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
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
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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Astonish Beautiful Original Poetry Solitude Weird
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
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

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