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.
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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What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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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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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
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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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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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
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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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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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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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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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