A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
THOMAS MANNA man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one’s own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
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Everything is politics.
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me…I don’t know which makes me feel worse.
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Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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