Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
THOMAS MANNLaughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
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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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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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Speech is civilization itself.
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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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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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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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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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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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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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