For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
THOMAS MANNSolitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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Speech is civilization itself.
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For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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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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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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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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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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He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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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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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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