This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected–in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
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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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
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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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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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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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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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into 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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