Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul. - Thomas Mann
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
- Thomas Mann
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. - Thomas Mann
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. - Thomas Mann
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives. - Thomas Mann
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst. - Thomas Mann
Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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 ordina… - Thomas Mann
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 ordina…
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life. - Thomas Mann
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. - Thomas Mann
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
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