Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
THOMAS MANNI shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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Everything is politics.
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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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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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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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For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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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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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
THOMAS MANN






