Time cools, time clarifies, no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Quotes from The Magic Mountain — Thomas Mann
1875–1955 Germany
48 quotes
The Magic Mountain (1924)
Love stands opposed to death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
The Magic Mountain (1924)
The Magic Mountain (1924)
Analysis can be a very unappetizing affair, as much so as death.
The Magic Mountain (1924)
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
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The Magic Mountain (1924)
It is a cruel atmosphere down there, cruel and ruthless.
The Magic Mountain (1924)
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
The Magic Mountain (1924)
"Love as a force contributory to disease."
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The Magic Mountain (1924)
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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The Magic Mountain (1924)
Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
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I, for one, have never in my life come across a perfectly healthy human being.
The Magic Mountain (1924)
Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
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The Magic Mountain (1924)
A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Mann (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.