What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
THOMAS MANNA man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Everything is politics.
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Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
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Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
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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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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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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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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected–in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
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