I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
THOMAS MANNThere 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.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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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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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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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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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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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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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.
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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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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Everything is politics.
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