Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
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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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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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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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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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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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What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
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