A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
THOMAS MANNEvery reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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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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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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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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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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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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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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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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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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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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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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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
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