It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
THOMAS MANNDistance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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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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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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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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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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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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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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Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.
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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 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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This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected–in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
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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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