Quotes by Thomas Mann

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

#Thomas Mann

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

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

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

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

#Thomas Mann

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

#Thomas Mann

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

#Thomas Mann

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

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It could become much worse.

#Thomas Mann

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

#Thomas Mann

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

#Thomas Mann

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

#Thomas Mann