One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
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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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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Everything is politics.
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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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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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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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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I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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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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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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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 don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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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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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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