Thomas mann: quotes

"For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph."

"Order and simplification are the first steps toward mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown."

"Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours."

"If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere. You even smell it."

"Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd."

Thomas Mann