Thomas Mann

(403 votes)   I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.

Thomas Mann
1875-1955, German Author, Critic

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(121 votes)   The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivable encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no precise name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold.

Thomas Mann
1875-1955, German Author, Critic

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(115 votes)   Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.

Thomas Mann
1875-1955, German Author, Critic

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(108 votes)   We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skeptics, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need.

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1875-1955, German Author, Critic

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(103 votes)   You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject-the actual enemy is the unknown.

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1875-1955, German Author, Critic

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(84 votes)   Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates.

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1875-1955, German Author, Critic

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(65 votes)   A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

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(62 votes)   All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

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(61 votes)   A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

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(60 votes)   A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

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(60 votes)   The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

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(58 votes)   A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

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(56 votes)   For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

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(50 votes)   If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

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(49 votes)   A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

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