He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
THOMAS MANNWhat 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.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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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 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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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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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.
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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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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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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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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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