It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me…I don’t know which makes me feel worse.
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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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He 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.
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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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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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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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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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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Everything is politics.
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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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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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