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Thomas Mann Inspirational Quotes (70)

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This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.
Thomas Kretschmann
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
Thomas Mann
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We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
Thomas Mann
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Time cools, time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Thomas Mann
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Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.
Thomas E. Mann
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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
Thomas Mann
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(T)here was a story they used to tell at home about a girl whose punishment was that every time she opened her mouth, snakes and toads came out, snakes and toads with every word. The book didn't say what she did about it, but I've always assumed she probably ended up keeping her mouth shut.
Thomas Mann
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Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.
Thomas Mann
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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
Thomas Mann
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First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity.
Thomas E. Mann
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I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
Thomas Mann
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
Thomas Mann
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For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.
Thomas E. Mann
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
Thomas Mann
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It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it's very good for cinema.
Thomas Langmann
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What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
Thomas Mann
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For the myth is the foundation of life it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
Thomas Mann
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Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
Thomas Mann
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann
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Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.
Thomas Mann
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When my father made 'Jean de Florette' and 'Manon des Sources' back to back, everybody said, 'Why two movies?' But you need two movies to show how criminality evolves, and to tell the story: You can't show a man in love with so many women in one big biopic.
Thomas Langmann
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
Thomas Mann
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