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.
THOMAS MANNI 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.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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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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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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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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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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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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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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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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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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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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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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