More from Thomas Mann

  1. For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. And with that, I wake up.
  2. Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.
  3. Love stands opposed to death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. Only love, not reason, gives kind thoughts.
  4. A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
  5. There is both rhyme and reason in what I say, I have made a dream poem of humanity. I will cling to it. I will be good. I will let death ha…
  6. What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back as it is grief at not being able to wan…
  7. The invention of printing and the Reformation are and remain the two outstanding services of central Europe to the cause of humanity.
  8. Time cools, time clarifies, no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

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