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Only Quotes by Thomas Mann
- War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
- Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month…
- A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
- All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
- It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its creation;…
- What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled…
- There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world…
- We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
- Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe…
- If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that…
- Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily…
- To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and spirit. It is…
- Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
- Isn't it grand, isn't it good, that language has only one word for everything we associate with love - from utter sanctity to the most…
- The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
- Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
- Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.
- Hey I'd like to daze away to a place no one has known in a state of mind I could call mine, that only I…
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