Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.
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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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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Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?
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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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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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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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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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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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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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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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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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