Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
THOMAS MANNThe Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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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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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
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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!
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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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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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Everything is politics.
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We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
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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 writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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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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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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