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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.

Thomas Mann

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
THOMAS MANN

Maintain Quite Time
Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
THOMAS MANN

Course Happiness Life Name Oneself
He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
THOMAS MANN

Funny Music Passion Serious Vulgar
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!
THOMAS MANN

Care Creature Eyes Human Phenomenon Structure Wonderful
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
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
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
THOMAS MANN

Better Harm Lying Truth
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
THOMAS MANN

Order Simplify Subject
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
THOMAS MANN

History Ideas Intellect Life Poison
We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
THOMAS MANN

Love Ourselves Person Quality Reason Time
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
THOMAS MANN

Creation Death Life Oneself
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
THOMAS MANN

Acceptance Artist Injustice Nature Privilege
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
THOMAS MANN

Himself Man Quite Recognition
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
THOMAS MANN

Coward Escape Peace Problem War
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
THOMAS MANN

Admire Animal Companion
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
THOMAS MANN

Average Honor Word

Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.

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