Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul. – Thomas Mann
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life. – Thomas Mann
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul. – Thomas Mann
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life. – 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
You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject-the actual enemy is the unknown. – Thomas Mann