A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas MannTags: writing writers struggle authors creative-process
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Thomas MannHe who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
Thomas Mann...when life still hesitates to touch us, when neither duty nor guilt dares lay a hand upon us
Thomas MannIt 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 MannFor passion, like crime does not sit well with the sure order and even course of everyday life. It welcomes every loosening of the social fabric, every confusion and affliction visited upon the world, for passion sees in such a disorder a vague hope of finding advantage for itself.
Thomas MannCar lorsque les yeux parlent, ils tutoient, lors même que les lèvres n'ont pas encore prononcé un "vous".
Thomas MannI tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
Thomas MannTags: mathematics
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
Thomas MannThis was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
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