If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
THOMAS MANNHe 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.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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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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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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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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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.
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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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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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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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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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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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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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