A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
THOMAS MANNOnly love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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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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Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
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The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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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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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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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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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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