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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Thomas Mann

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
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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Fear Interest Ourselves Sight View
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 great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
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
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
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
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
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Beautiful Born Original Pervert Poetry
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
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
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
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

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