German - Writer | June 6, 1875 - August 12, 1955
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
Thomas Mann
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Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
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The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.
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I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.
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Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.
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