All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
THOMAS MANNDistance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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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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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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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.
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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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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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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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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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In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
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