I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
THOMAS MANNOne must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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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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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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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Everything is politics.
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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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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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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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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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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