Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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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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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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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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There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one’s own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
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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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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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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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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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But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.
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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Everything is politics.
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