He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.
THOMAS MANNIt is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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Everything is politics.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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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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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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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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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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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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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
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He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
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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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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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