| "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." Thomas Mann Popular Quotes |
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| "The electrifying influence exercised on a whole generation just after the First World War by Demian...is unforgettable. With uncanny accuracy this poetic work struck the nerve of the times and called forth grateful rapture from a whole youthful generation who believed that an interpreter of their innermost life had risen from their own midst." Thomas Mann Quotes |
| A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own Thomas Mann Quotations |
| A man's dying is more the survivors affair than his own Thomas Mann Quotes |
| A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. Thomas Mann Adages |
| 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. Thomas Mann Quotations |
| A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. Thomas Mann Sayings |
| A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. Thomas Mann Quotes |
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| All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. Thomas Mann |
| As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. Thomas Mann |
| I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it. Thomas Mann |
| I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had Thomas Mann |
| If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. Thomas Mann |
| If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere. You even smell it. Thomas Mann |
| It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. Thomas Mann Adages |
| It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available. Thomas Mann Sayings |
| It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. Thomas Mann |
| No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. Thomas Mann |
| Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them Thomas Mann Remarks |
| Order and simplification are the first steps toward mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown Thomas Mann Quotations |
| Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. Thomas Mann |
| People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives Thomas Mann Quotes |
| Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent. Thomas Mann |
| 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. Thomas Mann Adages |
| 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 |
| Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact / it is silence which isolates. Thomas Mann |
| The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivable encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no precise name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold. Thomas Mann Remarks |
| The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life; to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life. Thomas Mann Adages |
| The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life. Thomas Mann |
| The Sorrows and Grandeur of Richard Wagner! Thomas Mann |
| This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life. Thomas Mann Sayings |
| This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life. Thomas Mann Adages |
| Thoughts come clearly while one walks. Thomas Mann Remarks |
| Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours Thomas Mann |
| Time has no division to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire pistols. Thomas Mann |
| Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. Thomas Mann Popular Quotes |
| War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. Thomas Mann |
| War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. Thomas Mann Remarks |
| We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. Thomas Mann |
| We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skeptics, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need. Thomas Mann |
