A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
THOMAS MANNIt is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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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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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.
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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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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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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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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.
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What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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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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