No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.Thomas Mann
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But it also gives birth to the opposite to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
Thomas Mann
The obvious missing potential mistake is George Bush's decision to wage war in Iraq.
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Literature. . . is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.
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Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact it is silence which isolates.
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A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
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For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.
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