A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
THOMAS MANN
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.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Everything is politics.
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Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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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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People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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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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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.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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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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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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