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“What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.”

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Thomas Mann The War and the Future

Speech, "The War and the Future" (1940); published in Order of the Day (1942)

“Never had he felt the joy of the word more sweetly, never had he known so clearly that Eros dwells in language.”

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Thomas Mann buch Der Tod in Venedig

Quelle: Death in Venice (1912), Ch. 4, as translated by David Luke

“The writer’s joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.”

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Thomas Mann buch Der Tod in Venedig

Quelle: Death in Venice (1912), Ch. 4, as translated by David Luke

“Asia surrounds us — wherever one’s glance rests, a Tartar physiognomy.”

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Thomas Mann buch Der Zauberberg

Asien verschlingt uns. Wohin man blickt: tatarische Gesichter.
Variant translation: Asia devours us. Wherever one looks: Tartar faces.
Settembrini in Ch. 5
The Magic Mountain (1924)

“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 choose, a poet’s utopia.”

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Thomas Mann

Freud and the Future (1937)

“In certain respects, particularly economically, National-Socialism is nothing but bolshevism. These two are hostile brothers of whom the younger has learned everything from the older, the Russian excepting only morality.”

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Thomas Mann buch The Coming Victory of Democracy

The Coming Victory of Democracy (1938), p. 14, translated by Agnes E. Meyer, Knopf (1938)

“O scenes of the beautiful world! Never have you presented yourself to more appreciative eyes.”

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Thomas Mann buch Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull

Bk. 2, Ch. 4
Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (1954)

“What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!”

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Thomas Mann buch Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull

Bk. 2, Ch. 4
Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (1954)

“Only indifference is free. What is distinctive is never free, it is stamped with its own seal, conditioned and chained.”

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Thomas Mann

As quoted in Sculpting in Time (1996), by Andrei Tarkovsky, p. 56

“This was Venice, the flattering and suspect beauty — this city, half fairy tale and half tourist trap, in whose insalubrious air the arts once rankly and voluptuously blossomed, where composers have been inspired to lulling tones of somniferous eroticism.”

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Thomas Mann buch Der Tod in Venedig

Quelle: Death in Venice (1912), Ch. 5, as translated by David Luke

“An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.”

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Thomas Mann

Speech at the Prussian Academy of Art in Berlin (22 January 1929); also in Essays of Three Decades (1942)

“Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.”

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Thomas Mann buch Der Zauberberg

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

“How else is the famous short story ‘A study in Abjection’ to be understood but as an outbreak of disgust against an age indecently undermined by psychology.”

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Thomas Mann buch Der Tod in Venedig

On a short story of the character, "Gustav Aschenbach". Ch. 2, as translated by David Luke
Death in Venice (1912)

“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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Thomas Mann

Letter, (1950); as quoted in Thomas Mann — The Birth of Criticism (1987) by Marcel Reich-Ranicki

“Beer, tobacco, and music,” he went on. “Behold the Fatherland.”

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Thomas Mann buch Der Zauberberg

"Herr Settembrini" commenting on Germany, in Ch. 4
The Magic Mountain (1924)

“Love as a force contributory to disease.”

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Thomas Mann buch Der Zauberberg

The title of "Dr. Krokowski" lectures. Ch. 4
The Magic Mountain (1924)

“They sang their mysterious duo, sang of their nameless hope, their death-in-love, their union unending, lost forever in the embrace of night’s magic kingdom. O sweet night, everlasting night of love! Land of blessedness whose frontiers are infinite!”

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Thomas Mann buch Tristan

Quelle: Tristan (1902), Ch. 8

“Six months at most after they get here, these young people — and they are mostly young who come — have lost every idea they had, except flirtation and temperature.”

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Thomas Mann buch Der Zauberberg

Settembrini on the Magic Mountain Society, in Ch. 5
The Magic Mountain (1924)

“Paradox is the poisonous flower of quietism, the iridescent surface of the rotting mind, the greatest depravity of all.”

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Thomas Mann buch Der Zauberberg

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

“Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.”

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Thomas Mann buch Der Zauberberg

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