A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
THOMAS MANNHe probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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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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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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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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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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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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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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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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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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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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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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Everything is politics.
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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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