Solitude 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.
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.
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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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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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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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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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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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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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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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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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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