A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
THOMAS MANNA solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
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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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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected–in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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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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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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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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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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