I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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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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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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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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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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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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