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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

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
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Acceptance Artist Injustice Nature Privilege
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
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
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
What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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Compromises Goodness Moral Opportunity Politics
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
What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
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Demand Live Passion Problem Public Youth
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 man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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Change Magic Thinking Vehicle Word
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?
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Infinite Life Sea Thinking Time
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape

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

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