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.
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 probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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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 great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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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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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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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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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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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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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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I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.
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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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