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

Thomas Mann

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
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
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
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
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
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
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
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
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
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
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape

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