More from Thomas Mann

  1. 'Beer, tobacco, and music,' he went on. 'Behold the Fatherland.'
  2. One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
  3. There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in sayin…
  4. In effect it seemed to him that, though honor might possess certain advantages, yet shame had others, and not inferior: advantages, even, t…
  5. My aversion from music rests on political grounds.
  6. I never can understand how anyone can not smoke - it deprives a man of the best part of life ... with a good cigar in his mouth a man is pe…
  7. I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.
  8. Hans Castorp loved music from his heart; it worked upon him much the same way as did his breakfast porter, with deeply soothing, narcotic e…

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