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.
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 shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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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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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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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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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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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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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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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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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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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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