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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

Thomas Mann

He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.
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Expedition Music People Thinking World
There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one’s own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
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Goodness Hesitate Misfortune Opinion Reality Yourself
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
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
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Act Adversity Fatal Grace Poised Positive
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
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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Clever Kind Smart Stupidity Worst
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
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
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Best Lust Mathematics Occupation Remedy Study
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
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
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

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