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Thomas Mann Quote: “It would lead him back, restore him to himself, but there is nothing so distasteful as being restored to oneself when one is beside oneself.”

251. “It would lead him back, restore him to himself, but there is nothing so distasteful as being restored to oneself when one is beside oneself.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time; which explains why young years pass slowly, while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course. We.”

252. “Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time; which explains why young years pass slowly, while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course. We.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “Very well can love come out of evil, and out of disorder something ordered for the best.”

253. “Very well can love come out of evil, and out of disorder something ordered for the best.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “A hell hound is coming. Howling. A huge explosive shell. A disgusting sugarloaf from the infernal regions.”

254. “A hell hound is coming. Howling. A huge explosive shell. A disgusting sugarloaf from the infernal regions.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “Art’s vital need for revolutionary progress and achievement of the new depends on the vehicle of the strongest subjective sense for what is hackneyed, for what has nothing more to say, for those standard, normal means that have now become ‘impossible’.”

255. “Art’s vital need for revolutionary progress and achievement of the new depends on the vehicle of the strongest subjective sense for what is hackneyed, for what has nothing more to say, for those standard, normal means that have now become ‘impossible’.”

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Thomas Mann Quote: “What is success? A mysterious, indescribable power – a vigilance, a readiness, the awareness that simply by my presence I can exert pressure on the movements of life around me, the belief that life can be molded to my advantage.”

256. “What is success? A mysterious, indescribable power – a vigilance, a readiness, the awareness that simply by my presence I can exert pressure on the movements of life around me, the belief that life can be molded to my advantage.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “Now and then some one came up to little Johann, put an arm across his shoulders, and looked at his presents with the overdone, cynical admiration which people manufacture for the treasures of children.”

257. “Now and then some one came up to little Johann, put an arm across his shoulders, and looked at his presents with the overdone, cynical admiration which people manufacture for the treasures of children.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “I know that the external, visible, tangible tokens and symbols of happiness and success first appear only after things have in reality gone into decline already. Such external signs need time to reach us, like the light of one of those stars up there, which when it shines most brightly may well have already gone out, for all we know.”

258. “I know that the external, visible, tangible tokens and symbols of happiness and success first appear only after things have in reality gone into decline already. Such external signs need time to reach us, like the light of one of those stars up there, which when it shines most brightly may well have already gone out, for all we know.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “Laban, the clod, was very likely right when he said, in his sluggishness over the beer, that blessing was strength and life strength and nothing else. For it is vain superstition to think that the life of men of blessing is nothing but happiness and shallow well-being. For the blessing is in truth nothing but the basis of their existence, gleaming goldenly through a plenitude of affliction and trial.”

259. “Laban, the clod, was very likely right when he said, in his sluggishness over the beer, that blessing was strength and life strength and nothing else. For it is vain superstition to think that the life of men of blessing is nothing but happiness and shallow well-being. For the blessing is in truth nothing but the basis of their existence, gleaming goldenly through a plenitude of affliction and trial.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “But the disease makes him ailing within and fevered without; disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.”

260. “But the disease makes him ailing within and fevered without; disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.”

— Thomas Mann

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.”

261. “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 –.”

262. “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.”

263. “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.”

264. “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.”

265. “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.”

266. “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.”

267. “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.”

268. “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.”

269. “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.”

270. “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

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