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Why does almost everything seem to me like its own parody? Why must I think that almost all, no, all the methods and conventions of art today ...
By Thomas Mann
Politics has been called the 'art of the possible,' and it actually is a realm akin to art insofar as, like art, it occupies a creatively medi...
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One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
By Thomas Mann
Never had he felt the joy of the word more sweetly, never had he known so clearly that Eros dwells in language.
By Thomas Mann
It had been a moving, tranquil apotheosis, immersed in the transfiguring sunset glow of decline and decay and extinction. An old family, alrea...
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How strange a vehicle it is, coming down unchanged from times of old romance, and so characteristically black, the way no other thing is black...
By Thomas Mann
He was all for catharsis and purification, he dreamed of an aesthetic consecration that should cleanse society of luxury, the greed of gold an...
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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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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...
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Because it often happens that an old family, with traditions that are entirely practical, sober and bourgeois, undergoes in its declining days...
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And thus they sang their mysterious duo, sang of their nameless hope, their death-in-love, their union unending, lost forever in the embrace o...
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A black pall, you know, with a silver cross on it, or R.I.P.—requiescat in pace—you know. That seems to me the most beautiful expression?...
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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.
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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
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The electrifying influence exercised on a whole generation just after the First World War by Demian ...is unforgettable. With uncanny accuracy this poetic work struck the nerve of the times and called forth grateful rapture from a whole youthful generation who believed that an interpreter of their innermost life had risen from their own midst.
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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 or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
By Thomas Mann
The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.
By Thomas Mann
It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
By Thomas Mann