Quotes by Mann, Thomas

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. >>

The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one o >>

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and p >>

Quotations about Solitude

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline toward >>

Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity. >>

The good and the wise lead quiet lives. >>

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.

Mann, Thomas