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

Quote by Thomas Mann

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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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.

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy,...

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy,...

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to...

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to...

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over...

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over...

Speech is civilization itself.

Speech is civilization itself.

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...

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

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

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

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

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming...

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming...