Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
THOMAS MANNWar is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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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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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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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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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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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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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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Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?
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I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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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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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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