“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.” ~from BUDDENBROOKS by Thomas Mann
"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death." ~Thomas Mann
"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul." ~Thomas Mann
"No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself." ~Thomas Mann
"Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject." ~Thomas Mann
"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. Yes, it can even, in the twinkling of an eye, make something like a vagabond of the pedant and Philistine. Time, we say, is Lethe; but change of air is a similar draught, and, if it works less thoroughly, does so more quickly." ~Thomas Mann from The Magic Mountain (1924)
"Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates." ~Thomas Mann
"Thoughts come clearly while one walks." ~Thomas Mann
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." ~Thomas Mann
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