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

Thomas Mann

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!
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Care Creature Eyes Human Phenomenon Structure Wonderful
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.
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Demand Live Passion Problem Public Youth
This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected–in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
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Expectation Feeling Joy Life Love Possession Sight Understand Unknown
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
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
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Conscious Flow Foundation Life Reproduction Time
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
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
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.
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Deprive Himself Man Safety Smoke Touch Understand
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
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

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

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