Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
THOMAS MANNAll interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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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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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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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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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected–in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for 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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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
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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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