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The Magic Mountain (1924)
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Paradox is the poisonous flower of quietism, the iridescent surface of the rotting mind, the greatest depravity of all.
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I never can understand how anyone can not smoke — it deprives a man of the best part of life … with a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him — literally.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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Born:
June 6, 1875
Died:
August 12, 1955
(aged 80)
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