Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
THOMAS MANNOne must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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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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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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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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I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.
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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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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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A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
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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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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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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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