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.
THOMAS MANNA great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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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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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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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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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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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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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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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?
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Everything is politics.
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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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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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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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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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For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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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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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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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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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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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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