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"31 Thomas Mann Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 6 June 1875. Died: 12 August 1955 | Novelist | Writer | Critic | Philanthropist | Essayist |

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Writer Someone Writing More difficult
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Love Reason Stronger than Death
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In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

Books Ourselves Strangely enough Great pleasure
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

Tolerance Crime Applied Evil
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

Laughter Sunbeam The soul
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

War Cowardly escape Problems Peace
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

Who loves The more Inferior Must suffer
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There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

So many Different kind Stupidity Cleverness
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

Art Funnel Spirit Poured
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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!

Are carnal Love Death Terror
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Harmful truth Better than Useful lie
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Interest Disease Death Expression
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We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting

Fear Called meticulous Inclining Exhaustive
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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
Only love Not reason Kind thoughts
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What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

What good Politics be Give everyone Opportunity
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Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

Opinions Survive No chance Fight
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Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one?

Life Goodness Irrespective Course
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Only death dignifies our sufferings in the eyes of others.

Death Dignifies Our sufferings Eyes
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Myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless pattern, the pious formula, into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Myth Foundation Life Timeless pattern
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Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge

Man loves Honors Not able Judge him
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Whoever is unable to stand up for an ideal with his person, his arm, his blood, is unworthy of that ideal, and no matter how intellectual one may become, what matters is that one remains a man.

Whoever Unable to Stand up His blood
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How can I free myself from sexuality? Eat nothing but rice?

Free myself Sexuality Eat nothing Rice
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To find peace in the presence of the faultless is the desire of the one who seeks excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?

Find peace Faultless Desire Seeks excellence
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Passion-means to live for life's sake but I am well aware you Germans live for the sake of experience. Passion means to forget ones self. But you do things in order to enrich yourselves.

Passion Live Life's sake Experience
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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

Human being Lives Personal life Individual
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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

Goodness Love Death No sovereignty
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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty, unfamiliar and perilous.
Solitude Gives birth Original Beauty
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Thoughts come clearly while one walks.
Thought comes Clearly One walks
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Like any lover, he desired to please; suffered agonies at the thought of failure.

Any lover Desired To please Suffered agonies
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Deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless?

Deep The well Past Call it
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He was simply not a “hero”, which is to say, he did not let his relationship with the man be determined by the woman.

Relationship Man Determined by The woman
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Thomas Mann Quotes & Sayings