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.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

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.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

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...

Speech is civilization itself.

Speech is civilization itself.

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...

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.

What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not...

What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not...

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

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

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

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out...

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out...

Everything is politics.

Everything is politics.

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

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

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell...

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell...

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

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.

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

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

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...