One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
THOMAS MANNOne 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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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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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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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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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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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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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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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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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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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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