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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

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.
THOMAS MANN

Best Lust Mathematics Occupation Remedy Study
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
THOMAS MANN

Astonish Beautiful Original Poetry Solitude Weird
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!
THOMAS MANN

Care Creature Eyes Human Phenomenon Structure Wonderful
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
He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
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Funny Music Passion Serious Vulgar
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
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
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
THOMAS MANN

Expression Ideas Possession Smell Yourself
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
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.
THOMAS MANN

Demand Live Passion Problem Public Youth
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
THOMAS MANN

Goal Present Thinking

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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