Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
THOMAS MANNSolitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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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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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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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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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.
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I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me…I don’t know which makes me feel worse.
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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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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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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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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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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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