Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
THOMAS MANNHe who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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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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Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
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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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We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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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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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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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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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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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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