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Thomas Mann quotes

Deutsch Writer June 6, 1875 – August 12, 1955

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Thomas Mann quote: "What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the..."
What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises. Thomas Mann
The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with silent, private experiences. Yes, time is a puzzling thing, there is something about it that is hard to explain. Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann quote: "Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite..."
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. 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
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! Thomas Mann
The fact is that everyone is much too busily preoccupied with himself to be able to form a serious opinion about another person. The indolent world is all too ready to treat any man with whatever degree of respect corresponds to his own self-confidence. Thomas Mann
He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings? probably even on polar expeditions. Thomas Mann
You have never spent any time in theatrical circles, have you? So you do not know those thespian faces that can embody the features of a Julius Caesar, a Goethe and a Beethoven all in one, but whose owners, the moment they open their mouths, prove to be the most miserable ninnies under the sun. Thomas Mann
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
This yearning for new and distant scenes, this craving for freedom, release, forgetfulness -- they were he admitted to himself, an impulse towards flight, flight from the spot which was the daily theatre of a rigid, cold, and passionate service. Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann quote: "Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and..."
Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate. Thomas Mann
And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved; for the god was in the one but not in the other - perhaps the tenderest, most mocking thought that ever was thought, and source of all the guile and secret bliss the lover knows. Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann quote: "Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most..."
Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates. Thomas Mann
The Ladies Buddenbrook from Breite Strasse did not weep, however - it was not their custom. Their faces, a little less caustic than usual at least, expressed a gentle satisfaction at death's impartiality. Thomas Mann
I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse. Thomas Mann

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