He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.
THOMAS MANNSolitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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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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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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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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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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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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What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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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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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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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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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 great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
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