A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
THOMAS MANN
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
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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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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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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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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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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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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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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell 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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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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