Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
THOMAS MANNA 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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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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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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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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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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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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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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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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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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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
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What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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