I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
THOMAS MANNYes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
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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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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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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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Everything is politics.
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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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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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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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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One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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