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“A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.”

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Thomas Mann buch Der Zauberberg

Quelle: The Magic Mountain

“Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!”

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“I stand between two worlds, am at home in neither, and in consequence have rather a hard time of it.”

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Thomas Mann buch Tonio Kröger

Quelle: Tonio Kröger (1903), Ch. 9, as translated by Bayard Quincy Morgan
Kontext: I stand between two worlds, am at home in neither, and in consequence have rather a hard time of it. You artists call me a commoner, and commoners feel tempted to arrest me … I do not know which wounds me more bitterly. Commoners are stupid; but you worshippers of beauty who call me phlegmatic and without yearning, ought to reflect that there is an artistry so deep, so primordial and elemental, that no yearning seems to it sweeter and more worthy of tasting than that for the raptures of common-placeness.

“All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.”

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Thomas Mann buch Der Zauberberg

Quelle: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6

“He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.”

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Thomas Mann buch Der Zauberberg

Quelle: The Magic Mountain

“I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.”

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“Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.”

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“Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.”

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Thomas Mann buch Doktor Faustus

Quelle: Doctor Faustus

“Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.”

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Thomas Mann buch Der Zauberberg

Quelle: The Magic Mountain

“What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.”

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Thomas Mann buch Der Zauberberg

Quelle: The Magic Mountain

“We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.”

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Thomas Mann buch Der Zauberberg

Quelle: The Magic Mountain

“Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject — the actual enemy is the unknown.”

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Thomas Mann buch Der Zauberberg

Quelle: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 5

“The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with silent, private experiences. Yes, time is a puzzling thing, there is something about it that is hard to explain.”

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Thomas Mann buch Der Zauberberg

Quelle: The Magic Mountain

“It seemed that at the end of the lecture Dr. Krokowski was making propaganda for psycho-analysis; with open arms he summoned all and sundry to come unto him. "Come unto me," he was saying, though not in those words, " come unto me, all ye who are weary and heavy-laden." And he left no doubt of his conviction that all those present were weary and heavy-laden. He spoke of secret suffering, of shame and sorrow, of the redeeming power of the analytic. He advocated the bringing of light into the unconscious mind and explained how the abnormality was metamorphosed into the conscious emotion; he urged them to have confidence; he promised relief.”

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Thomas Mann buch Der Zauberberg

Quelle: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 4

“The ancients adorned their sarcophagi with the emblems of life and procreation, and even with obscene symbols; in the religions of antiquity the sacred and the obscene often lay very close together. These men knew how to pay homage to death. For death is worthy of homage as the cradle of life, as the womb of palingenesis.”

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Thomas Mann buch Der Zauberberg

Quelle: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 5

“I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.”

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Thomas Mann buch Der Zauberberg

Settembrini's view of literature, Ch. 4
The Magic Mountain (1924)

“Hans Castorp loved music from his heart; it worked upon him much the same way as did his breakfast porter, with deeply soothing, narcotic effect, tempting him to doze.”

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Thomas Mann buch Der Zauberberg

Quelle: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 3

“The new hero-type favored by Aschenbach, and recurring in his books in a multiplicity of individual variants, had already been remarked upon at an early stage by a shrewd commentator, who had described his conception as that of “an intellectual and boyish manly virtue, that of a youth who clenches his teeth in proud shame and stands calmly on as the swords and spears pass through his body … the figure of Saint Sebastian is the most perfect symbol if not of art in general, then certainly of the kind of art in question.”

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Thomas Mann buch Der Tod in Venedig

Quelle: Death in Venice (1912), Ch. 2, as translated by David Luke

“There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hard-working artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life’s task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?”

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Thomas Mann buch Der Tod in Venedig

Quelle: Death in Venice (1912), Ch. 3, as translated by David Luke