{"author":"Thomas Mann","author_id":"Thomas+Mann","total_quotes":88,"quotes":[{"text":"A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. . . . Loneliness fosters that which is original, daringly and bewilderingly beautiful, poetic. But loneliness also fosters that which is perverse, incongruous, absurd, forbidden.","author":"Thomas Mann","tags":["loneliness","loneliness"],"id":483,"author_id":"Thomas+Mann"},{"text":"Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily - no hourly - and are nevertheless compelled to keep up the pose of an indifferent stranger, neither greeting nor addressing each other, whether out of etiquette or their own whim.","author":"Thomas Mann","tags":["relationships","strangers"],"id":5514,"author_id":"Thomas+Mann"},{"text":"It is love  not reason  that is stronger than death.","author":"Thomas Mann","tags":["life"],"id":11568,"author_id":"Thomas+Mann"},{"text":"Deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless?","author":"Thomas Mann","tags":["history"],"id":16912,"author_id":"Thomas+Mann"},{"text":"Perfectionism, of course, was something which even as a young man he had come to see as the innermost essence of talent.","author":"Thomas Mann","tags":["perfectionism","talent","writing"],"id":21553,"author_id":"Thomas+Mann"},{"text":"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.","author":"Thomas Mann","tags":["lie","lies","truth"],"id":32531,"author_id":"Thomas+Mann"},{"text":"Discussions should always be held just before going to bed, your rear protected by sleep. How painful, after an intellectual conversation, to have to go about with your mind so stirred up.","author":"Thomas Mann","tags":["discussion","sleep"],"id":56390,"author_id":"Thomas+Mann"},{"text":"Nature in her creative dreaming, dreamt the same thing both here and there, and if one spoke of imitation, then certainly it had to be reciprocal. Should one take the children of the soil as models because they possessed the depth of organic reality, whereas the ice flowers were mere external phenomena? But as phenomena, they were the result of an interplay of matter no less complex than that found in plants. If I understood our friendly host correctly, what concerned him was the unity of animate and so-called inanimate nature, the idea that we sin against the latter if the boundary we draw between the two spheres is too rigid, when in reality it is porous, since there is no elementary capability that is reserved exclusively for living creatures or that the biologist could not likewise study on inanimate models.","author":"Thomas Mann","tags":["nature","science"],"id":71633,"author_id":"Thomas+Mann"},{"text":"What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.","author":"Thomas Mann","tags":["art","artists","decency","innocence","need","writing"],"id":83693,"author_id":"Thomas+Mann"},{"text":"Time cools  time clarifies  no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.","author":"Thomas Mann","tags":["difficult","days"],"id":101020,"author_id":"Thomas+Mann"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":88,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}