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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.

Thomas Mann

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.
THOMAS MANN

Arrest Feeling Home Stand Suffering World Worst
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
THOMAS MANN

Compromises Goodness Moral Opportunity Politics
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
THOMAS MANN

Beautiful Born Original Pervert Poetry
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
THOMAS MANN

Author Book Enough Genius Greatness Happiness Strange
We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
THOMAS MANN

Fear Interest Ourselves Sight View
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.
THOMAS MANN

Belong Bright Charm Children Deep Love Myself Ordinary Secret
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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End Myself Need Sleep
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.
THOMAS MANN

Expectation Feeling Joy Life Love Possession Sight Understand Unknown

Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.

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