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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I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the...

I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the...

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...

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...

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

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

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

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.

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...

Everything is politics.

Everything is politics.

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...

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...

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...

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.

It could become much worse.

It could become much worse.

Speech is civilization itself.

Speech is civilization itself.

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

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...

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.

Even his griefs are a joy, long after, to one that remembers all that he...

Even his griefs are a joy, long after, to one that remembers all that he...

In my time of dyin', want nobody to moan All I want them to do...

In my time of dyin', want nobody to moan All I want them to do...

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the...

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the...