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Thomas Mann Quotes

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Six months at most after they get here, these young people - and they are mostly young who come - have lost every idea they had, except flirtation and temperature  (Thomas Mann Quotes) Paradox is the poisonous flower of quietism, the iridescent surface of the rotting mind, the greatest depravity of all  (Thomas Mann Quotes) The invention of printing and the Reformation are and remain the two outstanding services of central Europe to the cause of humanity  (Thomas Mann Quotes) What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back as it is grief at not being able to want to do so  (Thomas Mann Quotes) He was all for catharsis and purification, he dreamed of an aesthetic consecration that should cleanse society of luxury, the greed of gold and all unloveliness  (Thomas Mann Quotes) It is a pregnant complex, gleaming up from the unconscious, of mother fixation, sexual desire, and fear  (Thomas Mann Quotes) Wagner's art is the most sensational self-portrayal and self-critique of German nature that it is possible to conceive  (Thomas Mann Quotes) As a science of the unconscious it is a therapeutic method, in the grand style, a method overarching the individual case. Call this, if you choose, a poet's utopia  (Thomas Mann Quotes) Why does almost everything seem to me like it's own parody? Why must I think that almost all, no, all the methods and conventions of art today are good for parody only?  (Thomas Mann Quotes) Some of necessity go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path  (Thomas Mann Quotes) Desire projected itself visually: his fancy, not quite yet lulled since morning, imaged the marvels and terrors of the manifold Earth  (Thomas Mann Quotes) Like any lover, he desired to please; suffered agonies at the thought of failure, and brightened his dress with smart ties and handkerchiefs and other youthful touches  (Thomas Mann Quotes) The past is immortalized; that is to say, it is dead; and death is the root of all godliness and all abiding significance  (Thomas Mann Quotes) He whose preoccupation is with excellence longs fervently to find rest in perfection; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?  (Thomas Mann Quotes) The good Lord sees your heart, not the braid on your jacket, before Him we are all in our birthday suits, generals and common men alike  (Thomas Mann Quotes) Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer  (Thomas Mann Quotes) When one day is like all the others, then they are all like one; complete uniformity would make the longest life seem short, and as though it had stolen away from us unawares  (Thomas Mann Quotes) Is there anyone but must repress a secret thrill, on arriving in Venice for the first time - or returning thither after long absence - and stepping into a Venetian gondola?  (Thomas Mann Quotes) Looking, he thought that to come to Venice by the station is like entering a palace by the back door  (Thomas Mann Quotes) Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state  (Thomas Mann Quotes) A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth  (Thomas Mann Quotes) A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries  (Thomas Mann Quotes) A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people  (Thomas Mann Quotes) 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  (Thomas Mann Quotes) For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces it's traits out of the unconscious  (Thomas Mann Quotes) Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and it's magic vehicle the word?  (Thomas Mann Quotes) 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  (Thomas Mann Quotes) I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had  (Thomas Mann Quotes) If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it  (Thomas Mann Quotes) One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual  (Thomas Mann Quotes)
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