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.
THOMAS MANNA man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one’s own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
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I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
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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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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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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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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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