A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Quote by Thomas Mann

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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other...

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other...

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious...

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious...

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Hey i'd like to daze away to a place no one has known in a...

Hey i'd like to daze away to a place no one has known in a...

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs,...

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs,...

What is uttered is finished and done with.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family...

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family...

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an...

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an...

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness,...

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness,...

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature,...

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature,...

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of...

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of...