There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
—Thomas Mann
Topics: Music
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
—Thomas Mann
Topics: Death
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
—Thomas Mann
Topics: Love
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
—Thomas Mann
Topics: Medicine
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
—Thomas Mann
Topics: Awareness, Self-Discovery, Self-Knowledge
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
—Thomas Mann
Topics: Ideas, Positive Attitudes, Optimism
A man lives not only his personal life as an individual but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
—Thomas Mann
Topics: Living, Service
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
—Thomas Mann
Topics: Writing
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
—Thomas Mann
Topics: Patience, Resilience
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