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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Thomas Mann

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
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Conscious Flow Foundation Life Reproduction Time
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
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
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Achievement Beautiful Face Fate Positive Win
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
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
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
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
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Course Happiness Life Name Oneself
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
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
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
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

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