Author of quotes: Thomas Mann. Page 4

I hope you have nothing against malice? I think she's the most brilliant weapons of reason against darkness and ugliness. Anger, sir, is the soul of criticism, and criticism is the source of development and education.

And now that I've become something of a celebrity, would you laugh at me? Yes, of course, and you'd be right three times! Even if I alone created the Ninth Symphony, "the World as will and representation" and "the last judgment" - you still would have the right to laugh...

With a burning face he stood in a dark corner, suffering because of you, blond, cheerful lucky, and then, alone, went to her room. Someone would have to come now! Ingeborg would have come to notice that he was gone, sneaking out behind him and laying a hand on his shoulder, say: "Come to us! Cheer up! I love you!.." But she didn't come.

Man lives not only his personal life as a separate personality, but - consciously or unconsciously - as a whole, the life of his epoch.

To wait means to overtake, means to feel time and the present not as a gift, as an obstacle, so, rejecting their self-worth, to abolish them spiritually as if using them to jump over it. It is said that when the waiting time stretches. However - and this is probably closer to the truth - it flies even faster, because waiting to swallow large masses of time not using them and not living for their own sake.

Any coherent judgments, not one of abstract thought man is not without the Express order not to give himself away, unconsciously not to put all your "I" not to transfer symbolically the leitmotif and the original problem throughout his life.

The time is not the same as on the station clock where the big hand with a jerk and said immediately preceding five minutes, but rather like tiny clocks, when the movement of the arrow remains elusive or is, when invisible to the eye the grass grows, although secretly she still grows, and one day it becomes obvious.

In fact, time is not divided into segments at the onset of a new month or year not burst into a thunderstorm, no thunder pipes and even the advent of the new century say the only people shooting guns and ringing bells.

Perfection brings great joy.

When dreams come true, the best remains behind.

The poet creates not a gift of creative fiction, but the gift of spiritualization.

Who encourages a Vice that offends is thereby the virtue.

Art is the most beautiful, the most strict, the most joyful and good symbol of the eternal, not subject to the mind of the human desire for goodness, truth, and excellence.

People young or old depending on how he feels.