What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
THOMAS MANNEverything is politics.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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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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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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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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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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