What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back; as it is grief at not being able to want to do so

Quote by Thomas Mann

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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,...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Speech is civilization itself.

Speech is civilization itself.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them

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

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

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which...

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which...

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...

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...

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.

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

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...

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.

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

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

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without...

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without...

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

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...