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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.”

251. “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: “Sun and sea air could not burn his skin, it was the same creamy marble hue as at first – though he did look a little pale, either from the cold or in the bluish moonlight of the arc-lamps. The shapely brows were so delicately drawn, the eyes so deeply dark – lovelier he was than words could say, and as often the thought visited Aschenbach, and brought its own pang, that language could but extol, not reproduce, the beauties of the sense.”

252. “Sun and sea air could not burn his skin, it was the same creamy marble hue as at first – though he did look a little pale, either from the cold or in the bluish moonlight of the arc-lamps. The shapely brows were so delicately drawn, the eyes so deeply dark – lovelier he was than words could say, and as often the thought visited Aschenbach, and brought its own pang, that language could but extol, not reproduce, the beauties of the sense.”

— 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.”

253. “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 –.”

254. “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.”

255. “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.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “Yes, it’s almost too beautiful, Tony. By which I mean that it’s all too new yet. It still bothers me a little somehow, and that may be why this bad mood comes over me, nags at me, and ruins everything. I was so looking forward to all this, but, as always, anticipation was the best part, because good things always come too late, and then, when it’s finished and ready, you can’t really enjoy it the way you should.”

256. “Yes, it’s almost too beautiful, Tony. By which I mean that it’s all too new yet. It still bothers me a little somehow, and that may be why this bad mood comes over me, nags at me, and ruins everything. I was so looking forward to all this, but, as always, anticipation was the best part, because good things always come too late, and then, when it’s finished and ready, you can’t really enjoy it the way you should.”

— Thomas Mann

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.”

257. “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.”

258. “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.”

259. “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.”

260. “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.”

261. “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.”

262. “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.”

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

— Thomas Mann

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.”

264. “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.”

— Thomas Mann

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

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

— Thomas Mann

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.”

266. “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.”

— Thomas Mann

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

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

— Thomas Mann

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.”

268. “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.”

— Thomas Mann

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

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

— Thomas Mann

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.”

270. “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

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