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Thomas Mann quotes about personality

Deutsch Writer June 6, 1875 – August 12, 1955

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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
Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It engraves on the countenance of its servant the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventures, and even if he has outwardly existed in cloistral tranquility, it leads in the long term to overfastidiousness, over-refinement, nervous fatigue and overstimulation, such as can seldom result from a life of the most extravagant passions and pleasures. Thomas Mann
The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him.? they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality. Thomas Mann
A human being lives out not only his personal life as an individual, but also, consciously or subconsciously, the lives of his epoch and his contemporaries Thomas Mann
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
…But sometimes a person begins with opinions and judgments and valid criticisms, but then things creep in that have nothing to do with forming opinions, and then it’s all over with strict logic, and what you end up with is an absurd world republic and beautiful style. Thomas Mann
The diaries of opium-eaters record how, during the brief period of ecstasy, the drugged person's dreams have a temporal scope of ten, thirty, sometimes sixty years or even surpass all limits of man's ability to experience time--dreams, that is, whose imaginary time span vastly exceeds their actual duration and which are characterized by an incredible diminishment of the experience of time, with images thronging past so swiftly that, as one hashish-smoke puts it, the intoxicated user's brain... 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

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