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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.

Thomas Mann

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 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
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
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
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Clever Health Ideas Man Perfection Refine Unusual
Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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Clever Kind Smart Stupidity Worst
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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End Myself Need Sleep
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
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
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
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Author Book Enough Genius Greatness Happiness Strange
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me…I don’t know which makes me feel worse.
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Arrest Feeling Home Stand Suffering World Worst
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking

Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.

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