Thomas Mann

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

#also #beauty #birth #gives #opposite

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#creative-process #struggle #writers #writing #authority

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#love #reason #stronger #than

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#beauty

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#tolerance #crime

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#respect

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#cowardly #escape #only #peace #problems

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

— Thomas Mann

#love #death

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#love #philosophy #beauty

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. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#music