More from Thomas Mann

  1. Cruelty is one of the chief ingredients of love, and divided about equally between the sexes: cruelty of lust, ingratitude, callousness, ma…
  2. This music of yours. A manifestation of the highest energy - not at all abstract, but without an object, energy in a void, in pure ether - …
  3. Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute! Unregarded it slips away, like a lizard, smooth, slippery, faithless…
  4. Why does almost everything seem to me like its own parody? Why must I think that almost all, no, all the methods and conventions of art tod…
  5. As a science of the unconscious it is a therapeutic method, in the grand style, a method overarching the individual case. Call this, if you…
  6. What a glorious gift is imagination, and what satisfaction it affords!
  7. I hold that we shall one day recognize in Freud's life-work the cornerstone for the building of a new anthropology and therewith of a new s…
  8. Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

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