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

Thomas Mann

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
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Best Lust Mathematics Occupation Remedy Study
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
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
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
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
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
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
He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
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Funny Music Passion Serious Vulgar
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
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
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
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.
THOMAS MANN

Beautiful Born Original Pervert Poetry

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

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