Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.
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 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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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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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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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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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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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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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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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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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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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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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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