Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
THOMAS MANNThomas Mann Quotes
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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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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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Speech is civilization itself.
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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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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