He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.
THOMAS MANNBut 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.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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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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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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In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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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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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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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!
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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
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