If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
THOMAS MANNIt is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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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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Everything is politics.
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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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.
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I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me…I don’t know which makes me feel worse.
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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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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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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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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