Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
THOMAS MANNA man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me…I don’t know which makes me feel worse.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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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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What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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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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I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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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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He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.
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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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