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 MANNFor to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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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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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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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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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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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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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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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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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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