For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
THOMAS MANN
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.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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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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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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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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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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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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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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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one’s own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
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