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Thomas Mann Quote: “In truth, they were all admirable scholars, the masters who taught in the cloisters of the old school – once a monastic foundation – under the guidance of a kindly, snuff-taking old head. They were, to a man, well-meaning and sweet- humoured; and they were one in the belief that knowledge and good cheer are not mutually exclusive.”

251. “In truth, they were all admirable scholars, the masters who taught in the cloisters of the old school – once a monastic foundation – under the guidance of a kindly, snuff-taking old head. They were, to a man, well-meaning and sweet- humoured; and they were one in the belief that knowledge and good cheer are not mutually exclusive.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “I shouldn’t be speaking of the present, but rather, perhaps, of the future. When you as Madame So-and-So finally vanish into your proper sphere, one is left to sit on the rocks all the rest of one’s life.”

252. “I shouldn’t be speaking of the present, but rather, perhaps, of the future. When you as Madame So-and-So finally vanish into your proper sphere, one is left to sit on the rocks all the rest of one’s life.”

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Thomas Mann Quote: “But it seems a noble and active mind blunts itself against nothing so quickly as the sharp and bitter irritant of knowledge.”

253. “But it seems a noble and active mind blunts itself against nothing so quickly as the sharp and bitter irritant of knowledge.”

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Thomas Mann Quote: “On a personal level, too, art is life intensified: it delights more deeply, consumes more rapidly; it engraves the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventure on the countenance of its servant and in the long run, for all the monastic calm of his external existence, leads to self-indulgence, overrefinement, lethargy, and a restless curiosity that a lifetime of wild passions and pleasures could scarcely engender.”

254. “On a personal level, too, art is life intensified: it delights more deeply, consumes more rapidly; it engraves the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventure on the countenance of its servant and in the long run, for all the monastic calm of his external existence, leads to self-indulgence, overrefinement, lethargy, and a restless curiosity that a lifetime of wild passions and pleasures could scarcely engender.”

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Thomas Mann Quote: “What is time? A mystery, a figment – and all-powerful.”

255. “What is time? A mystery, a figment – and all-powerful.”

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Thomas Mann Quote: “How can a man be worthy as an educator if he have a natural, incorrigible penchant for the abyss? Much as we renounce it and seek dignity, we are drawn to it.”

256. “How can a man be worthy as an educator if he have a natural, incorrigible penchant for the abyss? Much as we renounce it and seek dignity, we are drawn to it.”

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Thomas Mann Quote: “A trace of love’s purification is evident the moment instinct wears a human face, even the most anonymous, the most despicable.”

257. “A trace of love’s purification is evident the moment instinct wears a human face, even the most anonymous, the most despicable.”

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Thomas Mann Quote: “For he was by nature and temperament passive, could sit without occupation hours on end, and loved, as we know, to see time spacious before him, and not to have the sense of its passing banished, wiped out or eaten up by prosaic activity.”

258. “For he was by nature and temperament passive, could sit without occupation hours on end, and loved, as we know, to see time spacious before him, and not to have the sense of its passing banished, wiped out or eaten up by prosaic activity.”

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Thomas Mann Quote: “The tragedy of Rachel is the tragedy of valour rejected.”

259. “The tragedy of Rachel is the tragedy of valour rejected.”

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Thomas Mann Quote: “Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state.”

260. “Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state.”

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Thomas Mann Quote: “God is spirit, and above languages is language.”

261. “God is spirit, and above languages is language.”

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Thomas Mann Quote: “It always happens that, directly it has been found wanting and discarded by the poets and philosophers, there comes along a King to whom it is a perfectly new idea, and who makes it a guiding principle. That is what kings are like. It is not only that kings are men – they are even very distinctly average men; they are always a good way in the rear.”

262. “It always happens that, directly it has been found wanting and discarded by the poets and philosophers, there comes along a King to whom it is a perfectly new idea, and who makes it a guiding principle. That is what kings are like. It is not only that kings are men – they are even very distinctly average men; they are always a good way in the rear.”

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Thomas Mann Quote: “Vacuity, monotony, have, indeed, the property of lingering out the moment and the hour and of making them tiresome.”

263. “Vacuity, monotony, have, indeed, the property of lingering out the moment and the hour and of making them tiresome.”

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Thomas Mann Quote: “It seems to me, however, that despite the logical, moral rigor music may appear to display, it belongs to a world of spirits, for whose absolute reliability in matters of human reason and dignity I would not exactly want to put my hand in the fire. That I am nevertheless devoted to it with all my heart is one of those contradictions which, whether a cause for joy or regret, are inseparable from human nature.”

264. “It seems to me, however, that despite the logical, moral rigor music may appear to display, it belongs to a world of spirits, for whose absolute reliability in matters of human reason and dignity I would not exactly want to put my hand in the fire. That I am nevertheless devoted to it with all my heart is one of those contradictions which, whether a cause for joy or regret, are inseparable from human nature.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “You want everything to be harmless, Castorp, that’s the sort of fellow you are. You’re not at all averse to getting involved in things that are not harmless, but then you treat them as if they were, and you think that will ingratiate you with God and man.”

265. “You want everything to be harmless, Castorp, that’s the sort of fellow you are. You’re not at all averse to getting involved in things that are not harmless, but then you treat them as if they were, and you think that will ingratiate you with God and man.”

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Thomas Mann Quote: “El arte es vida potenciada.”

266. “El arte es vida potenciada.”

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Thomas Mann Quote: “God help our darkened and desecrated country and teach it to make its peace with the world and with itself!”

267. “God help our darkened and desecrated country and teach it to make its peace with the world and with itself!”

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Thomas Mann Quote: “Thus ungrateful is immature youth! It takes all that is offered, and bites the hand that feeds it.”

268. “Thus ungrateful is immature youth! It takes all that is offered, and bites the hand that feeds it.”

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Thomas Mann Quote: “How good, he thinks, that she breathes in oblivion with every breath she draws! That in childhood each night is a deep wide gulf between one day and the next.”

269. “How good, he thinks, that she breathes in oblivion with every breath she draws! That in childhood each night is a deep wide gulf between one day and the next.”

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Thomas Mann Quote: “The servants’ bare soles were inaudible on the matted floors, and the speech of Petepre and his kin was infrequent and soft-voiced from mutual respect. They bent tactfully toward each other, and in the pauses between courses held to each other’s noses a lotus flower, or some dainty morsel to each other’s mouths. Their mutual gentleness was exquisite, it was almost painful.”

270. “The servants’ bare soles were inaudible on the matted floors, and the speech of Petepre and his kin was infrequent and soft-voiced from mutual respect. They bent tactfully toward each other, and in the pauses between courses held to each other’s noses a lotus flower, or some dainty morsel to each other’s mouths. Their mutual gentleness was exquisite, it was almost painful.”

— Thomas Mann

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