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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

Thomas Mann

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
THOMAS MANN

Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
THOMAS MANN

Demand Live Passion Problem Public Youth
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.
THOMAS MANN

Best Lust Mathematics Occupation Remedy Study
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
THOMAS MANN

History Ideas Intellect Life Poison
Everything is politics.
THOMAS MANN

One Liner Politics
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.
THOMAS MANN

Goodness Hesitate Misfortune Opinion Reality Yourself
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.
THOMAS MANN

Arrest Feeling Home Stand Suffering World Worst
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
THOMAS MANN

Affair Death Himself Man Survive
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
THOMAS MANN

Average Honor Word
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
THOMAS MANN

Order Simplify Subject
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
THOMAS MANN

Admire Animal Companion
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?
THOMAS MANN

Infinite Life Sea Thinking Time
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
THOMAS MANN

Goal Present Thinking
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
THOMAS MANN

Deep Distance Mystery Shape
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
THOMAS MANN

Greatness Opposite Truth

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

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