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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. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#adverse #adverse conditions #against #aggression #conditions

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#beginning #begins #bells #century #divisions

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

— Thomas Mann

#more #other #people #somebody #than

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#behavior #goals #makes #motives #needs

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

— Thomas Mann

#die #life #must #order #utterly

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#dying #his #man #more #own

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

— Thomas Mann

#cools #course #hours #maintained #mood

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#experiences #feels #gregarious #intense #less

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#every #human #human being #moderate #reasonable

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. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#best #best part #cigar #deprives #good