No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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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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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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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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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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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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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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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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