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Zdroj: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 7
Kontext: Time cools, time clarifies, no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. In the early dawn, standing weapon in hand, neither of the combatants would be the same man as on the evening of the quarrel. They would be going through it, if at all, mechanically, in obedience to the demands of honour, not, as they would have at first, of their own free will, desire, and conviction; and such a denial of their actual selves in favour of their past ones, it must somehow be possible to prevent.

“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”

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Varianta: Love stands opposed to death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Zdroj: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6; variant translation: It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. Only love, not reason, gives sweet thoughts. And from love and sweetness alone can form come: form and civilization.
Kontext: Love stands opposed to death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. Only love, not reason, gives kind thoughts.

“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”

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Zdroj: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6, section, A Good Soldier as translated by Woods (1996), p. 506

“Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.”

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Zdroj: Death in Venice and Other Tales

“No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.”

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“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.”

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As quoted in This I Believe (1954), by Edward R. Murrow, p. 16
Varianta: War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Zdroj: This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of One Hundred Thoughtful Men and Women

“There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.”

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Zdroj: The Magic Mountain

“There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.”

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“I know I am talking nonsense, but I’d rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to keep on transmitting faultless platitudes.”

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Zdroj: The Magic Mountain

“He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.”

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Zdroj: The Magic Mountain

“A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.”

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Zdroj: The Magic Mountain

“Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!”

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“I stand between two worlds, am at home in neither, and in consequence have rather a hard time of it.”

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Zdroj: Tonio Kröger (1903), Ch. 9, as translated by Bayard Quincy Morgan
Kontext: I stand between two worlds, am at home in neither, and in consequence have rather a hard time of it. You artists call me a commoner, and commoners feel tempted to arrest me … I do not know which wounds me more bitterly. Commoners are stupid; but you worshippers of beauty who call me phlegmatic and without yearning, ought to reflect that there is an artistry so deep, so primordial and elemental, that no yearning seems to it sweeter and more worthy of tasting than that for the raptures of common-placeness.

“Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.”

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“All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.”

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Zdroj: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6

“He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.”

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Zdroj: The Magic Mountain

“I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.”