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You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemizat

You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject-the actual enemy is the unknown. – Thomas Mann

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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. – Thomas Mann

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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. – Thomas Mann

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There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. – Elias Canetti

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The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail. – Bede Jarrett

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It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit. – Antoine Rivarol

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What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt held in cohesion by unresting cells. Which work they know not why, which never halt, myself unwitting where their Master dwells? – John Edward Masefield

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