A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
THOMAS MANN
We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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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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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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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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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
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For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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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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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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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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