Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
THOMAS MANN
Yes, 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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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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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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What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
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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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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell 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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For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
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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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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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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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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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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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