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Thomas Mann Quote: “Aschenbach noticed with astonishment the lad’s perfect beauty. His faced recalled the noblest moment of Greek sculpture – pale, with a sweet reserve, with clustering honey-coloured ringlets, the brow and nose descending in one line, the winning mouth, the expression of pure and godlike serenity. Yet with all this chaste perfection of form it was of such unique personal charm that the observer though he had never seen, either in nature or art, anything so utterly happy and consummate.”

251. “Aschenbach noticed with astonishment the lad’s perfect beauty. His faced recalled the noblest moment of Greek sculpture – pale, with a sweet reserve, with clustering honey-coloured ringlets, the brow and nose descending in one line, the winning mouth, the expression of pure and godlike serenity. Yet with all this chaste perfection of form it was of such unique personal charm that the observer though he had never seen, either in nature or art, anything so utterly happy and consummate.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “He tried putting himself in Herr Albin’s shoes and imagining how it must be when one is finally free of all the pressures honor brings and one can endlessly enjoy the unbounded advantages of disgrace –.”

252. “He tried putting himself in Herr Albin’s shoes and imagining how it must be when one is finally free of all the pressures honor brings and one can endlessly enjoy the unbounded advantages of disgrace –.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “Once in my life I had pomegranate juice and soda; it was too sweet.”

253. “Once in my life I had pomegranate juice and soda; it was too sweet.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “Sky, earth, and sea were still lying in the ghostly and glassy pallor of daybreak; a fading star was still floating in unreality.”

254. “Sky, earth, and sea were still lying in the ghostly and glassy pallor of daybreak; a fading star was still floating in unreality.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “They forced everything to an issue, these two and wrangled bitter over extremes, whereas it seemed as though somewhere between two intolerable positions, between bombastic humanism and analphabetic barbarism,, must lie something which one might personally call the human.”

255. “They forced everything to an issue, these two and wrangled bitter over extremes, whereas it seemed as though somewhere between two intolerable positions, between bombastic humanism and analphabetic barbarism,, must lie something which one might personally call the human.”

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Thomas Mann Quote: “The policy are to be commended.′ Aschenbach replied, and after a brief exchange of meteorological observations the manager excused himself.”

256. “The policy are to be commended.′ Aschenbach replied, and after a brief exchange of meteorological observations the manager excused himself.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “But beauty, too, is never perfected and for that very reason incites to vanity; for beauty works hard to achieve what it finds lacking in its own self-imposed ideal – yet another error, for beauty’s secret actually consists in the attraction that comes from imperfection.”

257. “But beauty, too, is never perfected and for that very reason incites to vanity; for beauty works hard to achieve what it finds lacking in its own self-imposed ideal – yet another error, for beauty’s secret actually consists in the attraction that comes from imperfection.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “Verily it is well for the world that it sees only the beauty of the completed work and not its origins nor the conditions whence it sprang; since knowledge of the artist’s inspiration might often but confuse and alarm and so prevent the full effect of its excellence.”

258. “Verily it is well for the world that it sees only the beauty of the completed work and not its origins nor the conditions whence it sprang; since knowledge of the artist’s inspiration might often but confuse and alarm and so prevent the full effect of its excellence.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “They let him be. He was like the scholar in the peculiarly happy state of never being “asked” any more; of never having a task, of being left to sit, since the fact of his being left behind is established, and no one troubles about him further – an orgiastic kind of freedom, but we ask ourselves whether, indeed, freedom ever is or can be of any other kind.”

259. “They let him be. He was like the scholar in the peculiarly happy state of never being “asked” any more; of never having a task, of being left to sit, since the fact of his being left behind is established, and no one troubles about him further – an orgiastic kind of freedom, but we ask ourselves whether, indeed, freedom ever is or can be of any other kind.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “Is it possible for a man to become blind, or as nearly blind as Yitzhak was in his old age, because he does not like to see, because seeing is a torture to him, because he feels better in a darkness in which certain things can happen because they must happen? I do not assert that such a cause could have such a result, but only that the causes were present.”

260. “Is it possible for a man to become blind, or as nearly blind as Yitzhak was in his old age, because he does not like to see, because seeing is a torture to him, because he feels better in a darkness in which certain things can happen because they must happen? I do not assert that such a cause could have such a result, but only that the causes were present.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “That service he loved, had even almost come to love the enervating daily struggle between a proud, tenacious, well-tried will and this growing fatigue, which no on must suspect, nor the finished product betray by any faintest sign that his inspiration could ever flag or miss fire.”

261. “That service he loved, had even almost come to love the enervating daily struggle between a proud, tenacious, well-tried will and this growing fatigue, which no on must suspect, nor the finished product betray by any faintest sign that his inspiration could ever flag or miss fire.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “I never can understand how anybody can not smoke – it deprives a man of the best part of life, so to speak – or at least of a first-class pleasure. When I wake in the morning, I feel glad at the thought of being able to smoke all day, and when I eat, I look forward to smoking afterwards; I might almost say I only eat for the sake of being able to smoke –.”

262. “I never can understand how anybody can not smoke – it deprives a man of the best part of life, so to speak – or at least of a first-class pleasure. When I wake in the morning, I feel glad at the thought of being able to smoke all day, and when I eat, I look forward to smoking afterwards; I might almost say I only eat for the sake of being able to smoke –.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “Great words, being worn out, do a poor job of expressing the extraordinary. This is better accomplished by using ordinary words to the uttermost extent of their meaning.”

263. “Great words, being worn out, do a poor job of expressing the extraordinary. This is better accomplished by using ordinary words to the uttermost extent of their meaning.”

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Thomas Mann Quote: “Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy. And our solitary protagonist felt in himself at this moment power to command and wield a thought that thrilled with emotion, an emotion as precise and concentrated as thought: namely, that nature herself shivers with ecstasy when the mind bows down in homage before beauty.”

264. “Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy. And our solitary protagonist felt in himself at this moment power to command and wield a thought that thrilled with emotion, an emotion as precise and concentrated as thought: namely, that nature herself shivers with ecstasy when the mind bows down in homage before beauty.”

— Thomas Mann

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.”

265. “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.”

266. “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.”

— Thomas Mann

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.”

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

— Thomas Mann

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

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

— Thomas Mann

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.”

269. “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.”

— Thomas Mann

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.”

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

— Thomas Mann

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