What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
THOMAS MANNA writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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Speech is civilization itself.
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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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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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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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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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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I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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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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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.
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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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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Everything is politics.
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