It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
THOMAS MANNLaughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
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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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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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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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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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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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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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We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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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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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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