A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
THOMAS MANNOne must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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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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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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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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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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