For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

Quote by Thomas Mann

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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

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.

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare...

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare...

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple...

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple...

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,...

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of...

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of...

Everything is politics.

Everything is politics.

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly...

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly...

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.

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest...

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest...

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of...

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of...

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...

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

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

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the...

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the...

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history...

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history...

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...

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest...

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest...