Death was a blessing, so great, so deep that we can fathom it only at those moments, like this one now, when we are reprieved from it. It was the return home from long, unspeakably painful wanderings, the correction of a great error, the loosening of tormenting chains, the removal of barriers---it set a horrible accident to rights again.
Thomas MannThe little hand on time’s clock trips away as though measuring seconds; but God knows how much time it is covering when it whisks round heedless of the divisions it passes over! So much is certain, that we have been up here for years. Our brains reel, surely this is an evil dream, though dreamed with nor hashish nor opium; a censor of morals would rebuke us for it.
Thomas MannTags: time
.. that language could but extol, not reproduce, the beauties of the sense.
Thomas MannTags: novella
It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting his whole self into it, quite unawares, presenting as if in allegory the basic themes and problems of his life.
Thomas MannNo, not of course at all—it is really all hocus-pocus. The days lengthen in the winter-time, and when the longest comes, the twenty-first of June, the beginning of summer, they begin to go downhill again, toward winter. You call that ‘of course’; but if one once loses hold of the fact that it is of course, it is quite frightening, you feel like hanging on to something. It seems like a practical joke—that spring begins at the beginning of winter, and autumn at the beginning of summer. You feel you’re being fooled, led about in a circle, with your eye fixed on something that turns out to be a moving point. A moving point in a circle. For the circle consists of nothing but such transitional points without any extent whatever; the curvature is incommensurable, there is no duration of motion, and eternity turns out to be not ‘straight ahead’ but ‘merry-go-round’!
Thomas MannYou will lead, you will strike up the march of the future, boys will swear by your name, and thanks to your madness they will no longer need to be mad.
Thomas MannHet stelt me buitengewoon gerust,' zei ze, terwijl ze de geïnhaleerde rook uit-sprak, 'te horen dat u geen hartstochtelijk mens bent. Hoe zou u trouwens ook? Dan zou u uw aard moeten verloochenen. Hartstocht betekent : leven omwille van het leven. Maar het is bekend dat jullie leven omwille van de belevenis. Hartstocht betekent zichzelf vergeten. En jullie is het erom begonnen jezelf te verrijken. C'est ça. U hebt er geen flauw vermoeden van dat dat een afschuwelijke vorm van egoïsme is en dat jullie je op zekere dag zullen ontpoppen als vijanden van de mensheid.
Thomas MannWho then was the orthodox, who the freethinker? Where lay the true position, the true state of man? Should he descend into the all-consuming all-equalizing chaos, that ascetic-libertine state; or should he take his stand on the "Critical-Subjective," where empty bombast and a bourgeois strictness of morals contradicted each other? Ah, the principles and points of view constantly did that; it became so hard for Hans Castorp's civilian responsibility to distinguish between opposed positions, or even to keep the premises apart from each other and clear in his mind, that the temptation grew well-nigh irresistible to plunge head foremost into Naphtha's "morally chaotic All.
Thomas MannTags: doubt human-nature principles
Zaman hiç kesintiye uğramadan hep aynı şekilde akarsa, elimizden kaymaya başlar ve zaman duygumuz, yaşam duygumuzla öylesine bağlantılı ve iç içedir ki, bu duygulardan birinin zayıflaması demek, öbürünün de acı ve yıpratıcı bir deneyimden geçmesi demektir. Can sıkıntısının kaynağı ile ilgili bir yığın yanlış düşünce dolaşır ortalıkta Can sıkıntısı denen şey, aslında, zamanın tekdüzeliğinin neden olduğu sağlıksız bir kısalmadır. Alışkanlık, zaman duygusu uykuya yatarsa ortaya çıkar ve insana gençlik yılları yavaş yavaş, daha sonraki yıllar ise gitgide hızlanarak akıp gidiyor gibi gelirse bu alışkanlık yüzündendir. Yeni alışkanlıklar edinmenin ya da eskilerini değiştirmenin altında yatan şey, yaşamı korumak, zaman duygumuzu yoğunlaştırmak, zaman deneyimimizi yavaşlatmak ve böylece yaşam duygumuzu yenilemek arzusudur.
Thomas MannTags: magic-mountain
The observations and encounters of a man of solitude and few words are at once more nebulous and more intense than those of a gregarious man, his thoughts more ponderable, more bizarre and never without a hint of sadness. Images and perceptions that might easily be dismissed with a glance, a laugh, an exchange of opinions occupy him unduly; they are heightened in the silence, gain in significance, turn into experience, adventure, emotion. Solitude begets originality, bold and disconcerting beauty, poetry. But solitude can also beget perversity, disparity, the absurd and the forbidden.
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