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1. "La barbarie n est le contraire de la culture que dans le cadre de la hierarchie de pensee que celle-ci nous propose." ~ Thomas Mann
2. "Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?" ~ Thomas Mann
3. "In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius." ~ Thomas Mann
4. "Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life." ~ Thomas Mann
5. "It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its creation; for if people knew the sources of the artist's inspiration, that knowledge would often confuse them, alarm them, and thereby destroy the effects of excellence. strange hours! strangely enervating labor! bizarrely fertile intercourse of the mind with a body!" ~ Thomas Mann
6. "Das Gute kommt immer zu spät, immer wird es zu spät fertig, wenn man sich nicht mehr recht darüber freuen kann." ~ Thomas Mann
7. "A stimulus is a stimulus. The body doesn't give a damn about the meaning of the stimulus. Whether minnows or communion, the sebaceous glands stand up erect." ~ Thomas Mann
8. "You have never spent any time in theatrical circles, have you? So you do not know those thespian faces that can embody the features of a Julius Caesar, a Goethe and a Beethoven all in one, but whose owners, the moment they open their mouths, prove to be the most miserable ninnies under the sun." ~ Thomas Mann
9. "Denn das Glück, sagte er sich, ist nicht, geliebt zu werden; das ist mit Ekel gemischte Genugtuung für die Eitelkeit. Das Glück ist, zu lieben und vielleicht kleine, trügerische Annäherungen an den geliebten Gegenstand zu erhaschen." ~ Thomas Mann
10. "It was, however, striking—in the best sense of the word—that precisely those rules that corresponded exactly to their overseers' economic interests enjoyed unconditional veneration, whereas rules for which said correspondence was less applicable were more likely to be winked at." ~ Thomas Mann
11. "La belleza engendra pudor" ~ Thomas Mann
12. "I opanowal go rodzaj rozczulenia, prosta, a nabozna sympatia do wlasnego serca, do bijacego ludzkiego serca..." ~ Thomas Mann
13. "A harmful truth is better than a useful lie." ~ Thomas Mann
14. "For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph." ~ Thomas Mann
15. "War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace." ~ Thomas Mann
16. "Everything is politics." ~ Thomas Mann
17. "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
18. "A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own." ~ Thomas Mann
19. "He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer." ~ Thomas Mann
20. "But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary." ~ Thomas Mann
21. "Who then was the orthodox, who the freethinker? Where lay the true position, the true state of man? Should he descend into the all-consuming all-equalizing chaos, that ascetic-libertine state; or should he take his stand on the "Critical-Subjective," where empty bombast and a bourgeois strictness of morals contradicted each other? Ah, the principles and points of view constantly did that; it became so hard for Hans Castorp's civilian responsibility to distinguish between opposed positions, or even to keep the premises apart from each other and clear in his mind, that the temptation grew well-nigh irresistible to plunge head foremost into Naphtha's "morally chaotic All." ~ Thomas Mann
22. "Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It engraves on the countenance of its servant the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventures, and even if he has outwardly existed in cloistral tranquility, it leads in the long term to overfastidiousness, over-refinement, nervous fatigue and overstimulation, such as can seldom result from a life of the most extravagant passions and pleasures." ~ Thomas Mann
23. "Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph." ~ Thomas Mann
24. "Ako je lutao, bilo je to zato, što za neke ljude uopšte nema pravog puta.Kad bi ga pitali, šta zapravo kani postati, davao bi razlicite odgovore, jer je obicavao reci ( a bio je to vec i napisao), da nosi u sebi mogucnosti za hiljadu nacina života, zajedno s potajnom svesti, da su to zapravo same nemogucnosti." ~ Thomas Mann
25. "Or was he merely a mollycoddled favorite, enjoying capriciously prejudiced love? Schenback was inclined to believe the latter. Inborn in nearly every artist's nature is a voluptuous, treacherous tendency to accept the injustice if it creates beauty and to grant sympathy and homage to aristocratic preferences." ~ Thomas Mann
26. "Beklemek ileriye dogru acele etmek,zamani ve içinde bu ani bir armagan yerine bir engel gibi görmek,degerlerini yadsiyip yok ederek zihninde üzerlerinden atlayip geçmek demektir.Beklemek sikicidir denir,oysa,büyük bir oranda zamani kullanmadan ve deneyimlerinden geçmeden tüketmek eglencelidir de.Hiçbir sey yapmadan bekleyen bir kisi,hiçbir yarari olmadan bir sürü seyi sindirim sistemine yigan bir obura benzer diyebiliriz.Daha da ileriye giderek hazmedilmemis gidalarin bir insani daha güçlü yapmadigi gibi geçen zamanin insani yaslandirmadigini söyleyebiliriz.Zaten ari ve tam bekleme diye bir sey yoktur." ~ Thomas Mann
27. "Men do not know why they award fame to one work of art rather than another. Without being in the faintest connoisseurs, they think to justify the warmth of their commendations by discovering it in a hundred virtues, whereas the real ground of their applause is inexplicable--it is sumpathy." ~ Thomas Mann
28. "And then he'd rub his cheeks with cold cream because he'd just shaved and the tears stung." ~ Thomas Mann
29. "Passion-means to live for life's sake but I am well aware you Germans live for the sake of experience. Passion means to forget ones self. But you do things in order to enrich yourselves." ~ Thomas Mann
30. "Soll man die Segel streichen und dem Erlebnis ausweichen, sobald es nicht vollkommen danach angetan ist, Heiterkeit und Vertrauen zu erzeugen? Soll man 'abreisen', wenn das Leben sich ein bisschen unheimlich, nicht ganz geheuer oder etwas peinlich und kränkend anlässt? Nein doch, man soll bleiben, soll sich das ansehen und sich dem aussetzen, gerade dabei gibt es vielleicht etwas zu lernen." ~ Thomas Mann
31. "... a secret and ardent stirring within the frozen chastity of the universal." ~ Thomas Mann
32. ".. that language could but extol, not reproduce, the beauties of the sense." ~ Thomas Mann
33. "The average man thinks that a little falseness goes with beauty." ~ Thomas Mann
34. "Naphta commença à parler de pieux excès de la charité qu'avait connus le moyen âge, de cas étonnants de fanatisme et d'exaltation dans les soins donnés aux malades : des filles de rois avaient baisé les plaies puantes de lépreux, s'étaient volontairement exposées à la contagion de la lêpre, avaient appelé leurs roses les ulcères qui se formaient sur leur corps, avaient bu l'eau où s'étaient lavés des malades purulents et avaient déclaré ensuite que rien ne leur avait jamais semblé meilleur.(ch. VI, operationes spirituales)" ~ Thomas Mann
35. "What good would politics be, if it didn't give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises." ~ Thomas Mann
36. "…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror." ~ Thomas Mann
37. "Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts." ~ Thomas Mann
38. "And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved; for the god was in the one but not in the other - perhaps the tenderest, most mocking thought that ever was thought, and source of all the guile and secret bliss the lover knows." ~ Thomas Mann
39. "Isn't it grand, isn't it good, that language has only one word for everything we associate with love - from utter sanctity to the most fleshly lust? The result is perfect clarity in ambiguity, for love cannot be disembodied even in its most sanctified forms, nor is it without sanctity even at its most fleshly. Love is always simply itself, both as a subtle affirmation of life and as the highest passion; love is our sympathy with organic life." ~ Thomas Mann
40. "Jakis dystyngowany lek, ze swymi pytaniami sprowokowal zbyt wielka poufalosc i dowie sie czegos, co go nic nie obchodzi, krzyzowala sie w nim z juz rozbudzona ciekawoscia i uwaga, z pragnieniem, by sie z tych ust dowiedziec czegos wiecej." ~ Thomas Mann
41. "Frau Stöhr, however, who happened to be sitting not all that far from the trio, had apparently abandoned herself to the film; her red, uneducated face was contorted with pleasure." ~ Thomas Mann
42. "Frau Stöhr found his remarks amphibious and unfeeling." ~ Thomas Mann
43. "All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life." ~ Thomas Mann
44. "Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd." ~ Thomas Mann
45. "The diaries of opium-eaters record how, during the brief period of ecstasy, the drugged person's dreams have a temporal scope of ten, thirty, sometimes sixty years or even surpass all limits of man's ability to experience time--dreams, that is, whose imaginary time span vastly exceeds their actual duration and which are characterized by an incredible diminishment of the experience of time, with images thronging past so swiftly that, as one hashish-smoke puts it, the intoxicated user's brain seems "to have something removed, like the mainspring from a broken watch." ~ Thomas Mann
46. "Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours." ~ Thomas Mann
47. "Speech is civilization itself." ~ Thomas Mann
48. "For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts." ~ Thomas Mann
49. "Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul." ~ Thomas Mann
50. "Prayers and love are learned in the hour when prayer has become impossible and your heart has turned to stone." ~ Thomas Mann
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