Quote #120
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.
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More from Thomas Mann
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- The intellect longs for the delights of the non-intellect, that which is alive and beautiful dans sa stupidite.
- War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
- Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.
- What a glorious gift is imagination, and what satisfaction it affords!