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

Thomas Mann

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one’s own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
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Goodness Hesitate Misfortune Opinion Reality Yourself
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
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
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
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
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
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
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
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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Expression Ideas Possession Smell Yourself
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
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
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.
THOMAS MANN

Expectation Feeling Joy Life Love Possession Sight Understand Unknown

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

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