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 MANNHe 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.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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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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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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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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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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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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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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