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.
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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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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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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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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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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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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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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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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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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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 probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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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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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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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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