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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

Thomas Mann

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
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
But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.
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Belong Bright Charm Children Deep Love Myself Ordinary Secret
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
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
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
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
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Foundation Humanity Important Theory Wisdom
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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Compromises Goodness Moral Opportunity Politics
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
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

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