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What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.

Thomas Mann

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
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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Astonish Beautiful Original Poetry Solitude Weird
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
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
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
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
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
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
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
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
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.
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Artist Feeling High Joy Thinking
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive

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