One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
THOMAS MANNSolitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
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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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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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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Everything is politics.
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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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.
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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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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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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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