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

Thomas Mann

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
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Feeling Man Mental Talk
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
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
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
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
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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Death Goodness Himself Love Thinking
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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Goal Motive Need People Yourself
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
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing

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

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