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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.

Thomas Mann

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
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
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Acceptance Artist Injustice Nature Privilege
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
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
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
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
We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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Love Ourselves Person Quality Reason Time
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
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
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
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
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
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

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