No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
THOMAS MANNA harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
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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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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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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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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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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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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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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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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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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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