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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.

Thomas Mann

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
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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Death Goodness Himself Love Thinking
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
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
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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History Ideas Intellect Life Poison
He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.
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Expedition Music People Thinking World
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
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
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Conscious Life Himself Live Man Personal
Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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Death Greatness Love Magic
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
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
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

Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.

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