I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
THOMAS MANNStupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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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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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Everything is politics.
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