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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Thomas Mann

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
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Foundation Humanity Important Theory Wisdom
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
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
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
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
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Beautiful Born Original Pervert Poetry
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
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
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
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
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
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

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