It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
THOMAS MANNA man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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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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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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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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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.
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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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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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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
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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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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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