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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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from...

Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from...

Speech is civilization itself.

Speech is civilization itself.

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...

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.

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

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

It could become much worse.

It could become much worse.

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

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

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,...

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,...

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...

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

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.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

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...

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

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

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...

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

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