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Thomas Mann quotes: Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism. Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.
Thomas Mann quotes: The experience of death must ultimately be the experience of life, or else it is only a wraith. The experience of death must ultimately be the experience of life, or else it is only a wraith.
Thomas Mann quotes: Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic! Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
Thomas Mann quotes: There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst. There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
Thomas Mann quotes: All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
Thomas Mann quotes: since for me speaking French is like speaking without saying anything somehow - with no responsibilities, the way we speak in a dream. since for me speaking French is like speaking without saying anything somehow - with no responsibilities, the way we speak in a dream.
Thomas Mann quotes: The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life. The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
Thomas Mann quotes: A secret and ardent stirring within the frozen chastity of the universal. A secret and ardent stirring within the frozen chastity of the universal.
Thomas Mann quotes: One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator. One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
Thomas Mann quotes: We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting. We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
Thomas Mann quotes: Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist. Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
Thomas Mann quotes: Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent. Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
Thomas Mann quotes: What is uttered is finished and done with. What is uttered is finished and done with.
Thomas Mann quotes: Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you. Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.
Thomas Mann quotes: The happiness of writers is the thought that can be entirely emotion and the emotion that can be entirely thought. Such a pulsing thought, such a The happiness of writers is the thought that can be entirely emotion and the emotion that can be entirely thought. Such a pulsing thought, such a
Thomas Mann quotes: Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
Thomas Mann quotes: For at the moment of the final division, the final miniaturization of matter, suddenly the whole cosmos opened up. For at the moment of the final division, the final miniaturization of matter, suddenly the whole cosmos opened up.
Thomas Mann quotes: How it must be when one is finally free of all the pressures honor brings and one can endlessly enjoy the unbounded advantages of disgrace - and How it must be when one is finally free of all the pressures honor brings and one can endlessly enjoy the unbounded advantages of disgrace - and
Thomas Mann quotes: At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the time to show oneself, the time of fulfillment. At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the time to show oneself, the time of fulfillment.
Thomas Mann quotes: In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius. In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
Thomas Mann quotes: If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
Thomas Mann quotes: Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph. Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
Thomas Mann quotes: Prayers and love are learned in the hour when prayer has become impossible and your heart has turned to stone. Prayers and love are learned in the hour when prayer has become impossible and your heart has turned to stone.
Thomas Mann quotes: He was simply not a "hero", which is to say, he did not let his relationship with the man be determined by the woman. He was simply not a "hero", which is to say, he did not let his relationship with the man be determined by the woman.
Thomas Mann quotes: Thoughts come c.early while one walks. Thoughts come c.early while one walks.
Thomas Mann quotes: Speech is civilization itself. Speech is civilization itself.
Thomas Mann quotes: Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it. Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
Thomas Mann quotes: He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word. He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
Thomas Mann quotes: Jewelry, a hot bath, and rest have often made a difference. Jewelry, a hot bath, and rest have often made a difference.
Thomas Mann quotes: Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
Thomas Mann quotes: For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
Thomas Mann quotes: That language could but extol, not reproduce, the beauties of the sense. That language could but extol, not reproduce, the beauties of the sense.
Thomas Mann quotes: Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy. Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.
Thomas Mann quotes: What good would politics be, if it didn't give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises. What good would politics be, if it didn't give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
Thomas Mann quotes: The average man thinks that a little falseness goes with beauty. The average man thinks that a little falseness goes with beauty.
Thomas Mann quotes: ... What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is - terror. ... What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is - terror.
Thomas Mann quotes: A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth. A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
Thomas Mann quotes: The perishableness of life ... imparts value, dignity, interest to life. The perishableness of life ... imparts value, dignity, interest to life.
Thomas Mann quotes: People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives. People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Thomas Mann quotes: Deep is the well of the past. Deep is the well of the past.
Thomas Mann quotes: Which seemed to hover in a limbo between creation and decay ... Which seemed to hover in a limbo between creation and decay ...
Thomas Mann quotes: The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea. The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.
Thomas Mann quotes: For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide. For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.
Thomas Mann quotes: And then he'd rub his cheeks with cold cream because he'd just shaved and the tears stung. And then he'd rub his cheeks with cold cream because he'd just shaved and the tears stung.
Thomas Mann quotes: A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
Thomas Mann quotes: He always knows instantly whether I have chosen the wild or the world, directly I get outside the door. He always knows instantly whether I have chosen the wild or the world, directly I get outside the door.
Thomas Mann quotes: Perfectionism, of course, was something which even as a young man he had come to see as the innermost essence of talent. Perfectionism, of course, was something which even as a young man he had come to see as the innermost essence of talent.
Thomas Mann quotes: Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word? Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
Thomas Mann quotes: A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own. A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
Thomas Mann quotes: Whoever loves the more is at a disadvantage and must suffer Whoever loves the more is at a disadvantage and must suffer
Thomas Mann quotes: The sweet spot is where duty and delight converge. The sweet spot is where duty and delight converge.
Thomas Mann quotes: His steps were dictated by the demon who delights in destroying manfs reason and dignity. His steps were dictated by the demon who delights in destroying manfs reason and dignity.
Thomas Mann quotes: What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
Thomas Mann quotes: No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Thomas Mann quotes: I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had. I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
Thomas Mann quotes: Only death dignifies our sufferings in the eyes of others. Only death dignifies our sufferings in the eyes of others.
Thomas Mann quotes: In Kant and Nietzsche we have the moralists of German militarism. In Kant and Nietzsche we have the moralists of German militarism.
Thomas Mann quotes: Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body. Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
Thomas Mann quotes: Literature ... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form. Literature ... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.
Thomas Mann quotes: What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes. What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.
Thomas Mann quotes: He had ... regarded travel as a hygienic necessity, which had to be observed against will and inclination. He had ... regarded travel as a hygienic necessity, which had to be observed against will and inclination.
Thomas Mann quotes: For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed. For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.
Thomas Mann quotes: How can I free myself from sexuality? Eat nothing but rice? How can I free myself from sexuality? Eat nothing but rice?
Thomas Mann quotes: For our sin God had visited our bodies with the gruesome ignominy of rot and decay, there was no indignity in the same body's receiving For our sin God had visited our bodies with the gruesome ignominy of rot and decay, there was no indignity in the same body's receiving
Thomas Mann quotes: Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts. Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
Thomas Mann quotes: Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate. Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
Thomas Mann quotes: 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. 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.
Thomas Mann quotes: Music awakens time, awakens us to our finest enjoyment of time. Music awakens time, awakens us to our finest enjoyment of time.
Thomas Mann quotes: Genius is a form of the life force that is deeply versed in illness, that both draws creatively from it and creates through it. Genius is a form of the life force that is deeply versed in illness, that both draws creatively from it and creates through it.
Thomas Mann quotes: Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ? Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?
Thomas Mann quotes: The one who loves most becomes subordinate and must suffer - his The one who loves most becomes subordinate and must suffer - his
Thomas Mann quotes: We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Thomas Mann quotes: Even the piquant can forfeit popularity if tied to something intellectual. Even the piquant can forfeit popularity if tied to something intellectual.
Thomas Mann quotes: The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought. The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
Thomas Mann quotes: Who can understand the deeply bonded alloy of order and intemperance that is its foundation? Who can understand the deeply bonded alloy of order and intemperance that is its foundation?
Thomas Mann quotes: Strangely fruitful intercourse this, between one body and another mind Strangely fruitful intercourse this, between one body and another mind
Thomas Mann quotes: Like any lover, he desired to please; suffered agonies at the thought of failure. Like any lover, he desired to please; suffered agonies at the thought of failure.
Thomas Mann quotes: Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Thomas Mann quotes: When life still hesitates to touch us, when neither duty nor guilt dares lay a hand upon us When life still hesitates to touch us, when neither duty nor guilt dares lay a hand upon us
Thomas Mann quotes: Everything is politics. Everything is politics.
Thomas Mann quotes: Everything is human. The Spaniard's fear of God, his humility, his solemnity, his scrupulous austerity is a very worthy form of humanity, Everything is human. The Spaniard's fear of God, his humility, his solemnity, his scrupulous austerity is a very worthy form of humanity,
Thomas Mann quotes: I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress. I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.
Thomas Mann quotes: Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought. Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought.
Thomas Mann quotes: It might well be that getting used to things up here was simply a matter of getting used to not getting used to them - but It might well be that getting used to things up here was simply a matter of getting used to not getting used to them - but
Thomas Mann quotes: Democracy is eternal and human. It dignifies the human being; it respects humanity. Democracy is eternal and human. It dignifies the human being; it respects humanity.
Thomas Mann quotes: It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Thomas Mann quotes: Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann quotes: That was one of the advantages of his age, that he could be sure of his mastery in every moment. That was one of the advantages of his age, that he could be sure of his mastery in every moment.
Thomas Mann quotes: Deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless? Deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless?
Thomas Mann quotes: But what would be our readers' reaction if we simply refused to get to the bottom of that question? But what would be our readers' reaction if we simply refused to get to the bottom of that question?
Thomas Mann quotes: It could become much worse. It could become much worse.
Thomas Mann quotes: Ultimately we are only as old as we feel in our hearts and minds. Ultimately we are only as old as we feel in our hearts and minds.
Thomas Mann quotes: Order and simplification are the first steps towards mastery of a subject Order and simplification are the first steps towards mastery of a subject
Thomas Mann quotes: her fiery femininity triumphed over the eczema covering half her face. Hans her fiery femininity triumphed over the eczema covering half her face. Hans
Thomas Mann quotes: LCSH terms that are "orphans" in terms of their individual coverage are seldom orphans in terms of their relationships. LCSH terms that are "orphans" in terms of their individual coverage are seldom orphans in terms of their relationships.
Thomas Mann quotes: He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer. He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
Thomas Mann quotes: A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
Thomas Mann quotes: Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness. Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.
Thomas Mann quotes: I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now. I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.
Thomas Mann quotes: Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul. Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

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