All Thomas Mann Quotes
One always 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
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I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
Thomas Mann
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The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
Thomas Mann
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
Thomas Mann
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For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
Thomas Mann
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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
Thomas Mann
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People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Thomas Mann
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
Thomas Mann
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Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann
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Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
Thomas Mann
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Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.
Thomas Mann
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