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We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.

Thomas Mann

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
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
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
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
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
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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Course Happiness Life Name Oneself
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
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
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
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
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

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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