I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
THOMAS MANNEvery reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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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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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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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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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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A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
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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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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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