“The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with silent, private… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“One always needs to be reminded; one is by no means always in possession of one’s whole self. Our consciousness is feeble;… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Death was a blessing, so great, so deep that we can fathom it only at those moments, like this one now, when… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“No, not of course at all—it is really all hocus-pocus. The days lengthen in the winter-time, and when the longest comes, the… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“The little hand on time’s clock trips away as though measuring seconds; but God knows how much time it is covering when… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“The diaries of opium-eaters record how, during the brief period of ecstasy, the drugged person's dreams have a temporal scope of ten,… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“You will lead, you will strike up the march of the future, boys will swear by your name, and thanks to your… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Hey I'd like to daze away to a place no one has known in a state of mind I could call mine,… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Often, the outward and visible material signs and symbols of happiness and success only show themselves when the process of decline has… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“You have never spent any time in theatrical circles, have you? So you do not know those thespian faces that can embody… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Solitude favors the original, the daringly and otherworldly beautiful, the poem. But it also favors the wrongful, the extreme, the absurd, and the forbidden.” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“But what would be our readers’ reaction if we simply refused to get to the bottom of that question?” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“O, čarobna organsko lepoto, koja se ne sastojiš ni iz uljane boje ni iz kamena, već iz materije žive i raspadljive, pune grozničave tajne… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“I hope that you have nothing against malice, my good engineer. In my eyes it is the brightest sword that reason has against the… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with silent, private experiences. Yes,… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“A stimulus is a stimulus. The body doesn't give a damn about the meaning of the stimulus. Whether minnows or communion, the sebaceous glands… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
