Speech is civilization itself.
THOMAS MANNHe who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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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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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have 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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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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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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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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