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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

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

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

— Thomas Mann

#dying #his #man #more #own

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

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#broke #german #hitler #hysterical #into

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. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#art #characterizes #creates #creativeness #critical

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#disease #leaves #makes #men #more

Everything is politics. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#politics

Bill Bradley is a serious politician and if Al Gore stumbles seriously, then Bradley is there to take advantage of that. ↗

— Tom Mann

#al #al gore #bill #bradley #gore