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

Thomas Mann

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
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
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
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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Change Magic Thinking Vehicle Word
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
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
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
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
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
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself

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