Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
THOMAS MANNWhat our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.
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Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?
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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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One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
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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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Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.
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We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
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I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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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 good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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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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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
THOMAS MANN