Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
THOMAS MANNNo man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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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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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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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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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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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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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 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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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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