We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
THOMAS MANNI don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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Speech is civilization itself.
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one’s own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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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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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 solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
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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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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
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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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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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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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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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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 produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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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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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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