Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
THOMAS MANNI don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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Speech is civilization itself.
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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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We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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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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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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People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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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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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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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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Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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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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