Best quotes by Thomas Mann on Life

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• ‟ For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

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• ‟ One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

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• ‟ All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

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• ‟ A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

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• ‟ The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

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• ‟ But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.

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• ‟ 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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• ‟ 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 perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.

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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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