He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
THOMAS MANNDistance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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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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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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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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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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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.
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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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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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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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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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