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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

Thomas Mann

I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me…I don’t know which makes me feel worse.
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Arrest Feeling Home Stand Suffering World Worst
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
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Achievement Beautiful Face Fate Positive Win
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
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
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
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
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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Artist Feeling High Joy Thinking
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
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
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
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

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