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Thomas Mann quotes

Deutsch Writer June 6, 1875 – August 12, 1955

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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. Thomas Mann
There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire... 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
Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes? who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression of disinterest either because of morals or because of a mental abnormality. Between them there is listlessness and pent-up curiosity, the hysteria of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need for communion and also a kind of tense respect. Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able... Thomas Mann
Or was he merely a mollycoddled favorite, enjoying capriciously prejudiced love? Schenback was inclined to believe the latter. Inborn in nearly every artist’s nature is a voluptuous, treacherous tendency to accept the injustice if it creates beauty and to grant sympathy and homage to aristocratic preferences. Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann quote: "For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no..."
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann quote: "Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and..."
Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic! Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann quote: "It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann quote: "Man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge..."
Man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge. Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann quote: "We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason..."
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann quote: "I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the..."
I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress. Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann quote: "He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer."
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer. Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann quote: "Whoever loves the more is at a disadvantage and must suffer"
Whoever loves the more is at a disadvantage and must suffer Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann quote: "Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of..."
Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one? Thomas Mann
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

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