A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
THOMAS MANNEverything is politics.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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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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The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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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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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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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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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
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