War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
THOMAS MANNLaughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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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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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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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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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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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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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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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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Everything is politics.
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